Delray Beach Opiate Lawsuit

Opiates are hell, that is why Delray Beach City Commission is now suing drug makers for their part that they played in the heroin crisis. One issue I thought of was that many of the addicts got hooked by non prescriptions that were obtained illegally thus possibly mitigating Big Pharmas culpability. This may be true but if infact these drugs were marketed as relatively safe and effective even for minor pain then that should go to trial. A lot of these addicts and dealers used to buy from the pill mills in S. Fla, this is what led to people using heroin.  Delray states that they are receiving no help from their state or federal government so they have decided to take matters in their own hands. The let the victims die proposal is  never  going                                                                                                                                                                       to get approval because nobody is allowed to play god regardless of the financial drain to their municipality's resources. I was a drug seeker, nobody ever told me how safe Vicodin would be. Infact I was no longer seeking support from a spiritual advisor or relying on the rooms for support otherwise I wouldn't have been in that situation to begin with. I had no defense against self medicating left to my own devises. Everybody knows how dangerous and addictive opiates are so I am not sure if Delray's lawsuits are ever going to go anywhere. If one has a shortage of dopamine d2 receptors in the brain and they end up getting hooked by abusing drugs how is that Big Pharmas fault? People that don't have a propensity toward alcoholism or drug addiction don't end up sticking needles in their arm. The argument is that even so called normal people are ending up as hard core addicts with these powerful drugs but I am not sure if I am buying that. When somebody breaks their leg the doctors definitely don't push Vicodin on the patient for an extended period of time. In many cases doctors have cut patients off of narcotic pain meds when they really needed them. Big Pharma is evil but I don't see them as liable in this particular case as much as one might think. Doctors that knowingly and willfully prescribe meds for dealers and addicts are the real criminals. In order to fight this epidemic one needs to cut off the supply on the street which means more law enforcement from another Task Force.