>>212550408
I can answer this one.
>huge push of highly addictive prescription opiods per Sackler family and big pharma
>for a period these pills were widely available and easy to obtain, even as a teenager you could probably just raid your parents medicine cabinet and experience pure euphoric high
>very miserable culture which creates forms of silent desperation, isolation, depression, alienation, and hopelessness
>above points mean a lot of people already addicted, and significantly more in the ideal position to become addicted if they are ever exposed to opiods
>final nail in coffin is the immense proliferation of adulterated products, fentanyl pressed pills, these days even more potent zenes
And the result is a lot of fucking deaths from overdose. There's different types though and idk which is more common, you'd have to check available resources. But basically there's
1) seasoned opi addict who either gets more potent shit than they're used to or is desperate and takes greater risks to get high/relieve their withdrawals and as a result overdose
2) complete noobs and opiate naive beginners who have no tolerance and can't survive the absurdly potent product that is being pushed everywhere.

Point 2 is obviously the most tragic case. Imagine trying something for the first time and just dying. It's more insidious because these days it isn't just fake painkiller pills or heroin that is laced with fent and worse. A lot of the time it's drugs that historically weren't being adulterated, like benzos, muscle relaxers, cocaine, even weed sometimes (pretty rare though). There was a weed vape pen that killed some teenagers recently because it had fent in it. Hopefully this explains the situation a bit

>t. Longtime opioid abuser