You are 100% seeing only cherry-picked images. Fox News loves to screech that coastal cities are dangerous and a disaster zone, and it's pure propaganda. The truth is that lots of cities in the US have a homeless problem, the ones that don't are because they get too cold in the winter, because of medical debt mainly.
I've traveled around the US a ton, and often the problem areas are a few blocks of a city, not entire cities like Fox loves to say. The US could solve the problem by investing in harm reduction and housing.
Fentanyl is a huge problem, obviously, but as you said, it was caused by Purdue breaking laws and now we all have to deal with it. The lack of consequence is honestly heart-breaking for the harm they've caused.
I don't get Fox News here. Not that it generally matters, since the news is essentially a conglomerate of shared reports coming from a couple sources.
Don't you find it strange there is such a homeless problem there? It really is mismanagement at the highest degree.
Have you had a look at how they were pushing it? Supposedly, one percent of doctors were prescribing 50% of it. They only targeted the doctors that they could influence the most.
Oh, it's a huge mismanagement. The USA is both the world's richest country AND a third world country. Such an incredible amount of tax money goes towards the military while the people have absolutely no support systems - everyone I know is very aware that a single bad medical event can bankrupt them.
Companies in the US are not about creating value, they're all about extracting as much as they can from the American people, and are very willing to use regulation to help them do that.