That does sound like false advertising, yeah... I don't know how much of the opioid crisis is due to reduced access to opioids though. Once someone is forced to buy from the dark web once, they've now learned how to use the dark web.

I know people who only became curious about the dark web after I used it a couple times. It just spreads, I guess.

The reason they were curious is because after some really invasive dental surgery (with lasers!) they were given a laughably small number of pills, a supply that would only last about 3 days at the recommended schedule, for an operation that the doctors know and warned them would hurt for around a week after.

I still believe harm reduction is the answer, but we're still years (possibly decades) away from a legal implementation. And it's not a full solution because you'll still have junkies, but it might become easier to help them once they don't have to totally hide themselves.

Purdue paid doctors to give out Oxy like candy, a drug that they knew was incredibly addicting while selling it as non-addictive, turning regular people into addicts and when they couldn't get more Oxy they would buy substitutes on the street. They put a flame thrower on the opiod crisis while their family took out billions in profits.