The CDC conflated prescription opioids with illicit opioid deaths. The narrative that prescription opioids are dangerous is a narrative of the globalist media, both parties and DEA/DOJ.
In fact a recent study of prescriptions on a state by state level does NOT correlate with opioid OD rates. Opioid addiction rates are less than 1% and much less than alcohol. Meanwhile, patients with chronic intractable pain are dieing from suicides and MIs when opioids are forced tapered.