Come on, really? It's a goddamned opioid. If a doctor isn't aware that an opioid is potentially addictive, then that is a really bad doctor. OxyContin is better than morphine, so any drug epidemic (which doesn't really exist, people have been doing opioids/opiates for a very long time) is lessened, not exacerbated, by substituting older opiates with more modern opioids.