So Big Brother now wants to intimidate doctors to stop them from prescribing pain killers. After all, Big Brother knows what's good for you, and thinks you should suffer in horrible pain rather than get addicted to a medication.

I remember a couple decades ago when Big Brother decided marijuana was bad and decided to eradicate it. They sent helicopters to spray weedkiller on marijuana fields, and threw users in jail. The result was an epidemic of crystal meth -- "ice" -- which is far worse.

Today Big Brother is trying to intimidate doctors from prescribing opioid pain killers. If that effort succeeds the result will be a huge rise in addiction to heroin, because people can get heroin on the street very cheaply compared with the hassle and expense of a prescription for opioids. But Big Brother thinks unregulated street heroin laced with poison, and fatal overdoses, are preferable to doctor-prescribed opioids.