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I'm aware of that. "freedom" includes the freedom to enslave oneself. It cuts both ways.
The really sad thing is that the creators of Oxy originally marketed it to doctors as something that only led to addiction in < 1% of people.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
Oxycontin: How Purdue Pharma Helped Spark The Opioid Epidemic | IFLScience
I agree that Oxy is abused and like many such pain drugs is more addictive than their makers claim. The advantage of Oxy was said to be it's timed release feature to give a more consistent dose over a longer time, but many of it's abusers crush it to get a stronger effect over a shorter time. Oxy was not available when I had my orthopedic surgeries and the suggested dosage of prescription pain meds left lags between one (4-hour) dose trailing off and the next (4-hour) dose kicking in - that was what Oxy was supposed to help.