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> Life expectancy has gone down because of the Opioid crisis and suicides. That certainly does effect poor people, but it is not -because- they are poor. I be
by scruple 7y ago
> Life expectancy has gone down because of the Opioid crisis and suicides. That certainly does effect poor people, but it is not -because- they are poor.
I beg to differ. The area where I grew up, in rural southeastern Ohio, has been ravaged by the opioid crisis. IMHO, it goes hand-in-hand with the loss of industry and jobs and the rise of poverty and hopelessness that's been left in the wake of that loss of economic prosperity.
- scarface74 7y agoNot directed at you, but I find it amazing that now that drugs are hitting “rural America” it is seen as caused by the lack of opportunity, jobs, and social mobility but when it was happening in the “inner city” it was all about “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”, “the government doesn’t owe you anything” and because of a “culture of dependency”.
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