It would probably also help if we, as a society, weren't so addicted to unhinged moral panics about drugs, which in turn supply political fuel for similarly reality-impaired "tough on crime" policy pushes. Right now it's fentanyl, but in the past it's been crack, LSD, marijuana, etc..

(Fentanyl clearly poses legitimate problems for various reasons, but people have increasingly treated it like it's some kind of sci-fi chemical weapon instead of a medicine that's routinely used in hospitals and nursing homes around the world.)