Overview: Over the past twenty years, the number of users of opioids, heavy painkillers, has increased enormously in the Netherlands. Warned by the opioid epidemic in the United States, a task force was established in our country in 2019 to halt the growth in the number of users. In the meantime, the task force has stopped, while the number of people who have received opioids increased again in 2022. Was the task group's task complete?