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No we can't because their medication also helped a lot of people in addition to the abusers that make it difficult for everyone else to get treatment.
Roughly half a million Americans have died from opioid overdoses since 1998 [1]. I don’t know how many can be directly attributed to OxyContin, but other drugs are pulled from the market over a tiny fraction of that number of deaths or less serious side effects.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/prescription-drug-overdo...