One of the greatest challenges facing the United States is the opioid crisis. This crisis causes despair, suicide, and shreds the moral fabric of America. Yet at its simplest level, it's a problem of supply, demand, and a solution that evades us. Many experts place the supply problem on the medical profession, the demand problem on Big Pharm for faulty research and greed, which masquerades the latest new opioid drug as safe. And the insurance complex which reimburses drugs that obtunds addicts but reduces lengthy hospital care that patients need.