the focus should be spent on prevention. i can't imagine why anybody would choose to take any kind of opiate, given the media around it, but they do.
that said, i would also like to see a national investigation into the conditions in which people become addicted to opiates in hospitals. i've had to push my way out of emergency rooms out of fear of being injected. they are aggressive enough that it opens up a lot of questions about kickbacks. drug companies should not be permitted to pay doctors to prescribe anything, but there needs to be a strong prohibition and crackdown on doctors getting paid to prescribe opiates, and there needs to be much more stringent consent clauses worked into people getting injected with opiates when they're unconscious. apparently, well over half of opiate addicts first got injected when they were unconscious and wake up addicted.
life saving healthcare should not come attached to a life ending addiction.