sidestepper is correct.

In Florida, we have an AG (Pam Bondi) that has been engaging in political posturing by "cracking down on the pill mills." Any medication that is deemed to be addictive has become taboo. Walgreens doesn't even stock Oxycontin anymore, and politicians are pressuring psychiatrists to wean people off of benzos. Consequently, heroin use has skyrocketed.

The real reason people abuse drugs is because they want to escape a life that they feel sucks. To illustrate, what do hospitals give patients who are in extreme pain? Morphine, which is pure heroin. If the political theory of addiction is correct, then all of those hospital patients that are given morphine will become addicts. But that's not the case.

I live in Florida, and I have chronic pain and anxiety (I was injured by an IED in Iraq), but I receive my healthcare from the Veterans Administration (VA). I'm fortunate that the VA prescribes painkillers and benzos very liberally (that's because Florida's AG has no influence over the feds).

Benzos, in moderation, really help people, and will not turn them into drug addicts.