The Opiate Overdose Death Epidemic. Unintended Consequence of the Ferguson Effect?

The war on drugs can be won, as it is in Singapore, or in Saudi Arabia, and now in the Philippines. 

One potential reason for the opiate overdose death epidemic, no one is mentioning, but is highly coincidental? The Ferguson Effect.

Officials, such as Rod Rosenstein, may not be just responsible for the surge in murders in Baltimore. He imposed a draconian consent decree on the Baltimore police. That surge is killing hundreds of additional black murder victims. The consent decree may have deterred police around the country in a social learning effect. It  may be responsible for killing 35,000 additional opiate addicts a year, as the police backs away from enforcement of drug laws.