Wanted to leave the same comment and found a few here saying the same. It is surprising how such an obvious objection has not been addressed - unless they expected most of the readers to miss it, which is then very sad.

The deaths figure - 91 per day or about 33K per year - seems to be the deaths of all opioids (including heroin abuse, etc.) and not the prescription opioids, which are half that:

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

Moreover, prescription deaths are relatively stable for last 6 years (though lower before that) while heroin deaths are raising quickly.