My biological mom died from an overdose of a “speedball,” e.g. mixing heroin and cocaine at the same time.

And that was years after she went into the hospital for pancreatitis, and they just blanket prescribed her opioids. From there the doctors kept bumping her prescription up, and then from there she sought pills on the street, and then finally she moved to heroin. I guess if she was alive today fentanyl would have been the next jump.

She was a byproduct of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

And I blame the pharmaceutical companies like Purdue who profited off it more than anyone else.

This was exacerbated by the aggressive and misleading marketing of drug makers, e.g. Purdue Pharma. Purdue trained its sales representatives to convey to doctors that the risk of addiction from OxyContin was "less than one percent."