Opioid use has become such big business that we have now reached the surreal situation that pharmaceutical companies are producing drugs to alleviate the side effects of opioid overuse. Having helped to create millions of addicts, the industry is now profiting from medications designed to make their addiction a little more comfortable. So far the crisis doesn’t seem to be going away. Every year opioids (both legal and illegal) claim 45,000 or so American lives, far more than are killed in car crashes.
