America has been suffering from opioid crisis according to “America’s Opioid Crisis” by Chris Mc Greal. Doctors have an open a legal gateway to drugs through the opioids prescribed excessively. American government is ignoring the epidemic issue of the opioid crisis because it produces a lot of money. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who is responsible to protect our health and make sure our safety has disregarded their responsibilities and geared its focus in money being produced by approving the mass prescribing of pills. America blames the addicts and turns a blind side due to the lack of restrictions and money being made. For these reasons one can agree that addicts are not to blame for the opioid crisis because opioids are imprudently and over prescribed, produce money, and (FDA) approved. Americans are being overprescribed with medication to self-medicate oneself 24/7 for three (3) weeks according to the article by Mc Greal. With the mass prescribing it can lead patients to become less tolerant thereby leading them to take more …show more content…
With (FDA) approving the opioid it opens a mass market for patients to have access to opioids endlessly causing them to develop an addiction. Needlessly the (FDA) has not managed the opioid crisis by approving this instead they pushed the shame and fault of addiction onto their own “Patients”. The lack of restrictions from the (FDA) has caused the downfall in the patients’ health. Mc Greal states, “It was clear from the hearing that doctors understood the dangers, but agency appeared to have put commercial considerations first.” This specifies that the (FDA) dismissed the patients’ health or doctor’s thoughts by only taking in consideration the agency and the profit that they will subsidize to America. The (FDA) has engaged into the opioid crisis by downplaying the system and allowing patients to have access to continual