Prohibition is the cause of the "opioid crisis".  

If humankind could simply desist from this faulty idea so much trouble would vanish. Excess funding for criminal, terrorist, and clandestine intelligence operations would evaporate almost overnight. Police resources could be redirected to prevention of real crimes and real victims could be saved. And a whole discredited skein of lies from the state to the people over decades would become redundant, contributing potentially to a return of integrity to public affairs.

Drug (and other victimless, consensual "crimes") prohibitions exemplify a statist/puritanical/collectivist/fascist influence that is a destructive affliction to our ideally liberal democracies.