The problem is broken families, abortions, broken hearts, in summary, selfish and poor choices in life. This leads to regret and pain. While individuals are not always responsible of pain inflecited on them by others' poor choices, bad decision making is what inflicts pain on the masses. Add to that total and utter abuse by the elites and corporate superpowers who shower the masses with social media addictive algorithms, the liberalization of weed that now allows everyone to be constantly high, greed, and jealousy and coveting of others' belongings. Summary: boundaries and limits have kept people in check for millenia. Now, maximum freedom has opened peoples' eyes to the emptiness in their lives. Without a meaningful purpose and passion in life what else is there when one has figured out that no amount of material wealth truly satisfies....most in this site probably have zero idea what I am talking about because they have never tasted a worry less life or had an abundance of possessions.
Just did the research on it. It turns out it's an actually FDA approved painkiller that's 50 times more potent than morphine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl#cite_note-:10-9. The side effects include extreme happiness. LOL Yeah I can see why this drug would be popular and addictive. There is actually a way to treat overdosing; you have to administer a drug called naloxone and it even comes in a nasal spray form called NARCAN so you can administer it easily to people that you suspect have overdosed on fentanyl. You just need to give multiple doses of it since fentanyl is very fast acting and very potent. Education is the key in preventing overdosing death, it looks like.
The Chinese influence of governments and ties to organised crime,even in little old Australia,is scary.
Which all explains why fertility rates are collapsing, now below 1.0 in some places. In the long run your "consumer units" of today will die out and be replaced by groups following a radically different social philosophy, such as the Amish and Hasidic Jews.