At the heart of the crisis was a class of new, powerful pain killers that came on the market in the 19 nineties. Oxiconten is highly addictive, and perde promoted it to doctors more heavily than any other pain color in history by two thousand people. This went on for more than a decade, until doctors were prescribing three billion dollars worth of oxiconton a year. But even after 20 years of the opioid epidemic, there were all kinds of questions like, wasOxiconton the cause of the overdose epidemic, or just a symptom of something deeper? And even more puzzling, why didn't op oids cause the same level of devastation everywhere? Take mass