I think the thing that annoys me about modern medical trends such as the enormous rise in obesity, Alzheimer's, autism and chronic pain and ensuing opiod abuse

I think the thing that annoys me about modern medical trends such as the enormous rise in obesity, Alzheimer's, autism and chronic pain and ensuing opiod abuse is the shoulder shrugging by the medical establishment as to the cause. Any meaningful change for the worse in medical statistics over time seems to be uninteresting to most of the medical community and is almost always ascribed to "better reporting" or moral failings of the patient.