Substance Abuse

[Blaster]

A serious health problem.

Fact-check: Is fentanyl the leading cause of death among American adults?

While fentanyl is leading to a high number of drug overdose deaths, it is not the leading cause of death in the U.S.

www.statesman.com

 

[KissMy]

Under Republican President Bush, House & Senate they all took money from Big Pharma companies to jail illegal dealers to allow Big Pharma to sell opioids to the masses. The same scum operated under Trump admin as well. 75% of overdose users began with prescriptions.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Wow, way to make a non-partisan issue into a partisan one in just one post!

 

[Blues Man]

Under Republican President Bush, House & Senate they all took money from Big Pharma companies to jail illegal dealers to allow Big Pharma to sell opioids to the masses. The same scum operated under Trump admin as well. 75% of overdose users began with prescriptions.View attachment 776556

Yeah because big pharma is responsible for the heroin, meth and coke on the streets.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

A serious health problem.

Or culling the weak from the herd.

 

[Blaster]

Or culling the weak from the herd.

Certain people are prone to addictions.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Certain people are prone to addictions.

Very true, and they have to work even harder to keep them at bay.

 

[KissMy]

Or culling the weak from the herd.

The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem​

• The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020.
• Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020.
• Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined.
• Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed.

 

[Foxfyre]

What we call recreational drugs have been around for a very long time and were sold without prescription for a very long time. But as addictions, lowered productivity and other problems became apparent, they would fall out of use, become socially unpopular or legally controlled/banned for all but a small sub culture of abusers/addicts.

Alcohol has always produced its percentage of hard core alcoholics with all the terrible downsides of that, but the percentage was fairly constant and, while devastating to the alcoholic and his/her loved ones, not a huge detriment to society as a whole. The same was pretty much the case with those who became addicted to prescribed medications.

Then there was a resurgence of recreational drugs in the mid to late 1960's and 70's aggravated by a sociopolitical war on religion/religious values/share ethics and customs. Without the checks and balances of societal character/ethics/social taboos and such, it has escalated over the years until it is pretty much completely out of control as it is now and is a huge factor in the deterioration of American society.

The drug cartels working both sides of the border see to it that supplies are so plentiful as to be unlimited. And those drugs are a factor in a very large percentage of both violent and non violent crime in the USA now.

Those who enjoy recreational drugs of course want them to remain legal. But the fact is, until they again become so socially unacceptable that the vast majority of Americans won't use them, legality will include all the many many debilitating, disastrous, violent, too often lethal downsides.

 

[MarathonMike]

Under Republican President Bush, House & Senate they all took money from Big Pharma companies to jail illegal dealers to allow Big Pharma to sell opioids to the masses. The same scum operated under Trump admin as well. 75% of overdose users began with prescriptions.View attachment 776556

It's not a Red-Blue thing, you idiot it is a national nightmare.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Until we recognize that China is waging asymmetrical warfare by sending massive amounts to Mexican allies we can't do anything. This is war on willing victims. The importation and distribution needs to be addressed first. Then start educating those that can be saved that they ingest nothing from casual sources. Not a candy, aspirin, chewing gum or anything else. Then let the mentally ill and drug addicted go.