33rd latitude...
I'm Canadian, I only have to deal with ridiculous collateral damage such as nbome ban (which is good to me) dragging along 2c-x phenethylamines, not because they were targeted, but because the nbombes and nboh's are based on these, like the DOx...DOB and DOM was already illegal, but that didn't prevent bikers from ruining "blotter" popularity in the early '00s with their horrible DOB blotter they sold for 3-4 years, which the police warned against (saying not to do "blotter" as another chemical much more dangerous than LSD was circulating and it was true). The makers of 2c-B which was banned here in 1994, the only 2c-x expressly banned (and our analogue law is much weaker here, they added one benzo from all the RC's and it's Flubromazepam, which explains it was the only stuff I ever had seized, even the second time with a decoy...the sender was flagged for sure) could make DOB easily if they could produce 2c-B which has never left the streets here, people call it Nexus.
But yeah that 33rd degree latitude...seems only bad things happen/are law there with very few exceptions. And no way it's an epidemic, even in Montreal you'd be hard pressed to find someone addicted to benzos, it's just not something people sell or know what they are. People here have a kind of attitude where they never know what meds they take, only that they take them because the doctor scripted them. People sold me 70 Dilaudid brand name 4mg for the price of the biggest bucket of KFC you can get because nobody knows the street prices for those things, well almost nobody does. There's more of an epidemic of people selling particularly Dilaudid to people, who end up frustrated by the price and end up shooting it, which happens even more with our HydromorphContins which are abusable, hard to do safely, sterifilt or micron, but many don't care and use the somewhat safe good filter in the SecuriCups in the injection kits but everytime I did it I felt dirty, and it seems to keep some of it's XR properties for some reason, would make me sleep like a baby, while slamming 8mg Dilaudid would give me the insane rush that gets you opi-crack addicted, while even with the crushed beads to the finest powder..it will hit hard, the rush is lesser, but it will hit hard 10 minutes later when you could surprise yourself projectile-vomiting. That's offtopic but I was making a comparison.
Doctors do not have a DEA preventing them from prescribing what they want, and it's people with legit issues that normally sell the pharms as they make contacts in the waiting room of the pain clinic and a merry-go-round of pills start, that's how I put my hands on 60 or so generic APO-Oxycodone CR 60mg (generic oxycontin like you don't have) which lays in my stash because my suboxone poisoned body (yes poisoned, I'm going back to methadone, after what that shit did to my teeth, suboxone that is, anyone familiar with the Canadian Suboxone Lemon pills will know what I'm talking about, I used to have perfect teeth, had 2 tiny cavities until 2 years into Suboxone where suddenly I had 23 cavities, then now, a year later, I got 12 new ones and my insurance does not cover canal treatments in case they can't do filling of one particular teeth that I will keep, there is no way a dentist is removing a teeth out of my mouth, my fist will punch theirs out if they even propose to do so. I'm not sure I will need a canal treatment but if I do, it's not covered by my insurance and it's something about 800 dollars. I could put it on my credit margin, but no fucking way, I managed to get in the + and I'm not going back into the minus in that account. /rant