It's no pipe dream when you give an easy pathway to people with addictions.

The number of drug overdose deaths increased by nearly 5% from 2018 to 2019 and has quadrupled since 19991. Over 70% of the 70,630 deaths in 2019 involved an opioid. From 2018 to 2019, there were significant changes in opioid-involved death rates:
Understanding the Epidemic
Opioid-involved death rates increased by over 6%.
Prescription opioid-involved death rates decreased by nearly 7%.
Heroin-involved death rates decreased by over 6%.
Synthetic opioid-involved death rates (excluding methadone) increased by over 15%2.
This rise in opioid overdose deaths can be outlined in three distinct waves.
The first wave began with increased prescribing of opioids in the 1990s, with overdose deaths involving prescription opioids (natural and semi-synthetic opioids and methadone) increasing since at least 19993.
The second wave began in 2010, with rapid increases in overdose deaths involving heroin4.
The third wave began in 2013, with significant increases in overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, particularly those involving illicitly manufactured f******l5,6,7. The market for illicitly manufactured f******l continues to change, and it can be found in combination with heroin, counterfeit pills, and cocaine.8
Many opioid-involved overdose deaths also include other drugs9.10.
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html

My take? I am very concerned about the future of the Divided States of America. There is so much h**e and fear on both sides of aisle and the country is splitting into dozens of tribes.

If the rebels o*******w the government the country is lost
If the Republican Party splits handing the Dems easy victories they will not be able to unite the country
Corruption and greed seem to be political virtues. That is all politicians or at least most on both sides of the aisle.

If Republicans take control than an authoritarian Theocracy is possible with the government legislating mortals and biblical law imposed on all Americans and science will be the enemy.

But if there is one thing I am absolutely positive about it is that I am not privy to the t***h. That is my religion
So this is just the meandering thoughts of some one who comes from afar as an observer
I am pulling for a uniting leader. Do you think one will emerge in time?

Having been (no longer) on high doses of opiods for severe pain (2014-2020) the insanity of government control to "fix the opioid crisis " is mind blowing. The DEA began fining doctors and Pharmacist. The problem comes across our borders from China and South America not doctor's and Pharmacist. From 2015-2018 people on opiods for chronic pain in many states were required to doctor shop and same with pharmacies or suffer in severe pain. The upside down thinking of government when good is bad, bad is good propagated by the left.
Somehow California thinks it a good idea to have safe places to shoot up heroin with EMP's , fresh syringes and give cash to junkies. Legalize pot a gateway drug but not allow chronic pain sufferers to get a prescription.

Illicit Drug Use
In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA, an annual average of 394,000 persons aged 12 or older
used an illicit drug in the past year.
This represents 20.7 percent of the MSA population and was similar to the rate in Oregon (19.6 percent) but was higher than in the Nation as a whole (14.7 percent).
The MSA rate of marijuana use in the past year was 15.7 percent, which was similar to the State rate (15.2 percent) but was higher than the national rate (10.7 percent).
The past year's rate of nonmedical use of prescription-type pain relievers was 7.7 percent, which was higher than the rates in Oregon (6.6 percent) and in the Nation as a whole (4.9 percent).

Substance Use or Mental Disorders
In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA, 212,000 persons aged 12 or older were classified as having a
substance use disorder in the past year.
The corresponding rate (11.2 percent) was higher than the rates in Oregon and the Nation as a whole.
Substance Use or Mental Disorders
In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA, 212,000 persons aged 12 or older were classified as having a
substance use disorder in the past year.
The corresponding rate (11.2 percent) was higher than the rates in Oregon and the Nation as a whole.
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHMetroBriefReports/NSDUHMetroBriefReports/NSDUH-Metro-Portland.pdf

You seem to be really mixed up. I'm more American in my little toe then you are in your whole body. I pull for the USA, but only when they are right. I never pulled for a t*****r and your brainwashed little mind will never be able to prove it or make it so. President Trump did not incite an over throw of America, and again, your brainwashed little mind will never be able to prove it or make it so. And if I was ever liable to be trained by a politician, I'd rather one who still has his wits about him then someone like you who is brainwashed by a half wit nit wit half brain dead incompetent like biden.