How you managed to turn to opioid crisis into a class issue totally befuddles me  The mainstream press (print, TV, radio) in cities like Cincinnati, Huntington, Louisville,  Indianapolis, etc. have reported on this problem for several years and have even led the way in marshaling treatment and prevention.   It is not news to most people in areas with the highest opioid deaths Have you really examined who are the victims of opioid overdose deaths:  they are not the well-heeled  they are the rural poor and despairing.  The culprits are not the pharmaceutical companies but the M.D.'s who prescribe irresponsibly, have very little training in pain management.  And then there are the unscrupulous MD's in Florida who prescribed opioids with no rational limits and set up  a profitable pipeline sending the drugs to Appalachia. (with  an M.D., GOP  governor who did nothing to stop them), The class division is not in the abuse but in the punishment...Rush Limbaugh anyone?  jail time? privilege?