[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'F')rom my perspective, things could not get much better. Preparing to retire to the free state of Tennessee while the Dems make their plans to wreck the US economy by electing either a socialist or a criminal.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'F')rom my perspective, things could not get much better. Preparing to retire to the free state of Tennessee while the Dems make their plans to wreck the US economy by electing either a socialist or a criminal.

[PrestonSturges]

I see Tennessee has one of the highest suicide rates.....

[Plantagenet]

I don't think the growth of the "drug" culture in the USA is getting enough of the blame. Many of these deaths in middle aged whites are occurring because of rising levels of drug abuse. For instance, Heroin abuse is up among rural whites in Maine and so are drug related deaths.

heroin-infiltrates-small-town-maine

People in the drug culture take drugs. Most start with pot---some move on to methamphetimene, coaine, and Heroin, and some of those folks die from drug overdoses, bad drugs, unclean needles, etc. etc..

The more folks who get sucked into the drug culture, the more who are going to die from drug abuse.


Dude! You look all strung out, Man! Have a hit on this joint and then snort some of this H while I put the Dead on the turntable!

[SeaGypsy]

How long have doctors been prescribing life long SSRIs in the USA in the millions a year? Nominally supposedly preventative/ curative for depression related 'mood disorders', despite known suicide risks, relationship breakdowns, other side affects. Tens of millions of Americans are life long addicts to mood adjusting pharmaceutical drugs with serious long term harmful effects. & they can't even get high. No wonder they are trying to mess with their abysmal serotonin levels- despite the war on self serotonin adjustment chemicals. All quite bizarre really, like the obesity epidemic.

[PrestonSturges]

People get addicted to pain killers and then their dealer tells them that heroin is exactly the same stuff, but much much cheaper. Of course, the purity varies, and it's often the newbies that OD.

[onlooker]

Also, to note is the epidemic of Meth throughout the country surely this must be another reason.

[Cog]

I have, from time to time, been intemperate in my use of alcohol. I blame Obama for this.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'F')rom my perspective, things could not get much better. Preparing to retire to the free state of Tennessee while the Dems make their plans to wreck the US economy by electing either a socialist or a criminal.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'H')ow long have doctors been prescribing life long SSRIs in the USA in the millions a year? Nominally supposedly preventative/ curative for depression related 'mood disorders', despite known suicide risks, relationship breakdowns, other side affects. Tens of millions of Americans are life long addicts to mood adjusting pharmaceutical drugs with serious long term harmful effects. & they can't even get high. No wonder they are trying to mess with their abysmal serotonin levels- despite the war on self serotonin adjustment chemicals. All quite bizarre really, like the obesity epidemic.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I') have, from time to time, been intemperate in my use of alcohol. I blame Obama for this.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'F')rom my perspective, things could not get much better. Preparing to retire to the free state of Tennessee while the Dems make their plans to wreck the US economy by electing either a socialist or a criminal.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I') have, from time to time, been intemperate in my use of alcohol. I blame Obama for this.

[onlooker]

Interesting I got curious and did a little googling and found that new studies are confirming that drugs, alcohol and cigarette addictions all have a genetic basis to them. All three have been and are factors in premature sickness and death.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'N')ot this sorry myth again. Alcohol (not pot or lsd or cocaine or even heroin) kill millions of American.

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'h')ttps://rwer.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/epidemic-of-pain-suicide-and-drug-overdoses-3-graphs/
Very telling article of the psychological and physical status of typical white middle age Americans. A toxic brew for sure. Low paying undesirable jobs and job insecurity, drugs widely available both legal and non-legal, a disillusioned outlook as in what happened to America all contributing to this epidemic
I guess suddenly the American dream is turning into a nightmare. My opinion is that now when economic dislocation is becoming so common, those who are not adaptable to living with less and at peace with their circumstances are the ones most likely to suffer. This even while the populace is still relatively unaware of the you know what storm headed our way. When people recognize what is headed our way what then? I shudder to think.

[Cog]

Why would we want to disarm the populace? Planning on doing something with them that they will object to?

No one, except for the odd loon on the far left or far right, wants a civil war. Confiscation of firearms is a good way to kick one off.

[PrestonSturges]

Last year a local rural county lost its only hospital, and now they don't have so much as an emergency clinic within 60 miles. Some of the local Republicans seemed quite smug and excited about it. As one brain dead church lady said "In our day this county had no hospital, and plenty of people lived to a ripe old age." And I'm sure that's true, but the stupid slag overlooks the fact that the dead people were buried, not stacked like cord wood in the town square where she would have been aware of them.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '
')Face it, dude. The popular culture in the USA is now pro-drug, and drugs wind up killing a lot of people. States across the US are legalizing pot, and the Feds have stopped most prosecutions. We even elected a former pothead as President who publicly supports decriminalizing pot.

The most popular politicians in the country (Obama and Hillary), and the Ds and the political left and the libertarians on the rights, and the MSM and popular culture in the USA now are all ok with drug use----it is any surprise drug use is rising and more drug deaths are occurring?