How many people in your life do you know that has had at least one prescription for an opioid? How many of those people became addicted and turned to heroin? @LifeProcessPrgm makes this point repeatedly. If addiction was so common with exposure, then the vast majority of the country would be addicted right now. I know one person in my real life who became addicted after being given a prescription from a doctor. One. Every single person I know in real life has had at least one prescription. So why is that?