It's probably very difficult to balance people experiencing chronic pain and their access to opioids, and those who need it on a temporary basis while balancing addiction risk. There are likely innumerable edge cases as well. However ultimately giving people personal responsibility is the best option of course.

The media only cares about advancing the globohomo agenda. They could start running stories about illegal alien crime for a few weeks and completely upend the DNC narrative. The same goes for everything, BLM, stop Asian hate, ...