re: To what extent is society morally obligated to save heroin addicts?

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The weak minded persons fault not the pills. Yeah everyone likes to think the person they know was some type of victim but it’s pretty rare. I have patients every single day that take, or have taken, opioids and the frick ups were frick ups long before they want to get high on the insurance policy.

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Sounds like the Doc is rationalizing it to take no blame for those who he(and many more) over prescribes too.

Even the basic hydrocodones scripts usually say take every 6-8 hours or as needed for pain, which gives the option to take even more WTF. Usually they can be a months worth with refills. Say a patient does exactly as they are prescribed, they will be physically hooked on opiates by the end of the 1st months prescription. Also by that time they may also be psychologically addicted as well. Either way they are addicted and some can quit once this realization comes about and others may look to end the physical withdrawals and continue down the opiate trail.

But yes you Drs are never to blame for any of this. But the real people to blame are the companies making these addictive drugs that they most definitely profit off of.