The opioid "crisis" is the fault of a legal framework that is at odds with human nature. 

Some portion of the population will always be addicted .. we don't have to condone it, but it's pretty clear from the last hundred years of failure that we can't proscribe our way out of it either. 

The misery and death associated with addiction would be almost entirely mitigated if drugs, and particularly opiates, were legalized and regulated just the same as alcohol--which is anyway a far more harmful substance.