But that shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone - big companies are only about making money, they'd go belly up if they didn't put profit over human lives. It may suck monkey runoff, but it's the truth - and I don't blame big pharma for wanting to rake in as much $$$ as possible.
Maybe they should have been more transparent about the possible addictive qualities of opioids, but in every case where the drugs were abused the doctors have proven that they did not tell the patient to "take as many you want." They did warn the patients about the dangers and also gave them very EXACTING prescriptions to follow, which the patients ignored.
Anything and everything can be dangerous and addicting and harmful when misused. In Utah there's a huge obesity epidemic because food is the one thing people can overindulge in here without condemnation from the mormon church. People can become addicted to potato chips, and pornography, and excessive Amazon usage and TV and podcasts and TikTok viewing and religion.
Should all manufacturers have to tell people, "Hey if you overuse this, it COULD be harmful." You'd hope that some common sense would be called for on the part of the users.