Uh, they do actually say that about the big Macs.

I mean, China's just paying us back for the 1800s.

Not all protein sources are equal. In order for a protein to be fully utilized its amino acid composition must contain a certain amount of each essential amino acid. 1 gram of pea protein yields about 70% as much of 1 gram of animal protein. I'd recommend looking up DIAAS.

Good point, thanks!

One minor complaint: The only thing mentioning the US is actually the title of the post - nowhere on the actual chart is there any mention.

got a link?

EDIT:Holy shit this graph is tame. OP should have added the years until 2022, as in my opinion these are the most important ones. This graph doesn't really show the scale of the opioid crysis. Now i get why i always hear about an opioide crysis in the US.

Cdc published new 2022 stats on opiates, it's around 30 per 100,000. It's overtaken diabetes, liver disease and kidney disease. I think it's underneath alzheimers and stroke is ~38 per 100k in 2021

Deschedule and sell controlled doses at Walgreens OTC. Tell your friends!

Edit woops its 2021

In 2021, 106,699 drug overdose deaths occurred, resulting in an age-adjusted rate of 32.4 per 100,000 standard population in the United States.

Opiates are like 22 per 100 000, so, demoted down below diabetes https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db457.htm

And overall deaths https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/451-500/db456-fig4.png

This one seems to include current data on overdose deaths https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

I mentioned this in another comment. I believe it is due Purdue reformulating oxy in 2010. The supplies of the old formula ran out and they had to turn somewhere.

I don't think the result would look anything like this. All that graph is doing transposing the results under the current UK system to the German methodology.

If the UK were to implement the German system I expect the results to look rather different. A lot of the smaller parties (Greens, UKIP/Reform/whatevertheyrecalledthesedays) will have a much bigger share while the bigger parties will lose votes.

Simple reason being that many people at the moment will vote for the "lesser evil" (eg maybe Labour even though they would prefer Green) simply to avoid their vote being a "lost vote" and to keep the "large evil" (in this example the Tories) out. If they were to vote for a small party there's a possibility the "lesser evil" will lose against the "large evil", so they do some tactical voting.

With proportional representation tactical voting in this manner isn't really that necessary any more, so the smaller parties will likely gain significant votes.

Purdue reformulated oxy in 2010. It was supposed to make it harder to abuse. The rise seems to start right then.

Looks like heroin and common opioids deaths are on the decline. Let’s give ourselves a pat on the back for this tremendous achievement

And it has continued to skyrocket since 2018, especially from 2020 through today.

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Funny how this recent empathy for opiate users came about only when white suburbanites started dying. Prior to that it was seen as an inner city problem and users were worthless scum of the earth. I think what you are observing is the old attitudes being held over in our new more compassionate approach.

Greenhouse gas effect is of a global nature.

It feels great. I think that’s the problem.

Without fail, every time there is a thread on substance use there's always people who say shit akin to "Ah, they did it to themselves, they deserve it, etc."

Funny how when we talk about something like heart disease you don't see people saying "Ah, they could just put down the big macs"

Are you ok? Even if you were kidding your comment shows a serious lack of empathy for other people. Everyone who has OD’d has loved ones who hope beyond anything that they will get clean eventually.
I think you’re a kinder person than this, I really do.

You would be correct. > The number of preventable deaths in the United States increased 16.1% in 2020 to 200,955, an all-time high. A 34.4% increase in drug overdose deaths helped drive this record high. A total of 83,558 people died from drug overdoses in 2020, also an all-time high.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/drugoverdoses/

I wonder how many of those were suicides rather than true ODs.

Deaths from overdose have skyrocketed. It's unreal.

Ill never forget the first time I heard of Fentanyl, in 2014 right before I had a lung surgery. Felt a lot like morphine but a little different. Doctor told me how powerful it was, now its the most evil substance on the market

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Nah they are making bad jokes. They don't believe this but since they probably aren't personally affected by this issue don't care enough not to offend others.