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Same applies to binge drinking. Example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31452735 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31452735 I guess when you have to work so h
by ajeet_dhaliwal 9y ago
Same applies to binge drinking. Example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31452735 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31452735
I guess when you have to work so hard to just manage a lifestyle that doesn't match your parents' everyone needs to get a bit more serious about things.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoBut isn't the "poor worker drinking to escape reality" trope a trope for a reason? Plenty of people who are economically fucked drink and do drugs to escape reality - often budgeting for it as carefully as rent.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 9y agoNo idea, seems measuring these trends is easier than finding the underlying causation. Perhaps enough young people have seen the state of the local heroin addict and thought, ok so that's not really a good option either.
- wojt_eu 9y agoMy first guess would be that being poor relative to peers is more stressful and depressing and relates to more substance abuse problems. When hardships are shared among whole generation it could affect them differently.