I recall reading an in depth investigative news report a few years back describing how former attorney general Holder under Obama was the point man who on behalf of big pharm lobbied the FDA and DEA to loosen the opiate laws and regulations that led to all the doctor shops that sprang up in Florida, which then became the launching pad for creating a huge black market of "legal" opiates across the nation. This allowed for the artificial expansion of a vast increase in "legal" opiate dependency in the US along with huge profits to shareholders of big Pharma. I say "artificial" because this expansion couldn't have happened without lobbying efforts thru the AMA to change the standard care for treating the increased prevalence of "lower back" pain among an aging population of obese Americans. There are many other factors to consider here as well that I don't have the time to go into, but it's suffice to say that there was much more calculated cronyism going on here than meets the eye.

http://dcwhispers. com/want-to-know-who-the-most-successful-drug-dealer-of-all-time-is-its-this-guy/#oK1yaAfl2BT3xl0D.97

https://www.washingtonpost. com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/?utm_term=.546dc9851bc1