No, because crime and addiction are somewhat inextricably linked. However, I want to emphasize that it's not the patients—the users, those who suffer with substance misuse disorders—who should be targeted. It's the dealers and the suppliers who need to be reined in. That's why I feel sufficiently strongly that many of the doctors who are prescribing short-acting opioids...I question whether they really understand the harm they're perpetrating. They're not regulated. If they have inadequate education on the subject, that is just going to contribute to the problem.
I want to emphasize, too, that I refer to substance misuse as the “four-two-one” condition. Most medical students spend four years in their institutions. If they are lucky, they will get two hours of teaching on what is the number one cause of morbidity.
If you're graduating doctors who really don't understand addiction, you can see how easy it is for them to over-prescribe and inappropriately prescribe, and the same applies to pharmacists. They don't have the training and education necessary to prevent excessive amounts of opioids ending up on the street. Most of those opioids that seemingly come from safe supply end up in the hands of the traffickers, the accounts of which you just described. They're accumulating these supplies because their business is to promote drug use.