something. I called this shit well over a decade ago. It seems my community got the brunt of it early - it's still horrible in the York, PA area. My little brother lost several of his childhood friends to Heroin in the mid to late 2000s. All of them got hooked on painkillers first and then graduated to H when the pills dried up or became too expensive.

I knew something was up when I got prescribed Codeine for a basic ass cough at some point in the early 2000s when I was away at college. My mom broke her ankle the year before and was prescribed a shit ton of oxy's for pain relief. I broke my ankle no less then 3 years prior to that and was never given pain pills. There's no reason she needed that many oxy's. Thankfully she didn't get hooked like so many others.

But yeah, Big Pharma has a shit ton of blood on their hands.