... today?

Sure.

What we're seeing and what matters to you and I is probably the mid-'90s to late '90s, early 2000s was the oxycodone, oxycodone, hydrocodone, OxyContin, right? Big one, huge one in the news, and that was, there was a big push, and that's for a couple reasons, one being that, 'cause that was during, [smacks lips] you know, my training originally, right? And there was a, kind of a, a drive by the insurance companies that when they talk about adding that, like, fifth vital sign was pain, where's your pain, and the nurses would show you this little card, and you choose one of the five smiley faces or frowns.

And it was tied to insurance reimbursement, so there was just kind of a, a free prescribing of those meds.

Likewise, you know, there was a lot on, on patients would evaluate and give, like, feedback on, on healthcare providers, and then the, the other problem was that, you know, the marketing that was going on.

We know that, you know? And we're told that a lot of these medicines weren't addictive, and they had all these studies to prove it which just weren't true.

So there was the start of that, and then as we kind of move into the, you know, 2005 through 2010, there was a crackdown on the prescribing of opiates, and that's really where heroin came in.

I mean, I have some ideas, but I want to hear from you.