opioid use disorder

Next Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) is scheduled to consider 

I don't need to tell you, especially if you've ever needed pain medications for moderate-severe pain, that this country is just plain nuts.

Would someone kindly tell me who decided that prescribing medications need not be limited to, say, people who know how to prescribe medications, for example, physicians who prescribe medications?

The Rand Corporation just released their study on the opioid crisis. Everything that follows our their words, gently edited and slightly rearranged. No facts or conclusions were harmed in this production.