How long is society going to pretend there aren't root causes to all these problems in America?

Skyrocketing Income inequality
No healthcare/Mental Health access
Dysfunctional hateful government
Prison capital of the world
Calls people heroes as they sacrifice them to the economy god
Police are a sadistic joke with no legal obligation to save anyone
Stagnant wages yet abusive work conditions
The media is owned by the elite who control the narrative and throw gas on the fire
Burning the world down to avoid confronting climate change

But sure lets just do a war on drugs because DRUGS are the problem.
Lets just ban all guns because GUNS are the problem.

When you look at the data for drug abuse and mass shootings yearly you see there's an undeniable trend and I know you know what I mean. Societal decline traces America's decline.

Look at America's problems and tell me only a psychopath would be angry. Tell me only a junkie would use drugs to escape this madness.

This never gets better until we stop searching for easy scapegoats and address the elephant in the room.

You will never solve sorrow and rage by blaming drugs and guns.

I used the Plotly library to make this. I think there’s also the bar_chart_race library others use to make similar animations, but I prefer the customization variety available on Plotly

Legalize and regulate recreational drugs

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Dude two seconds on Google got me all this research that clearly states college degrees more than pay for themselves. All you could find was one shitty wiki article??

If you're struggling that's a reflection of you. Don't project your incompetence on society.

https://educationdata.org/college-degree-roi

https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/college-pays-off/#:~:text=March%201%2C%202022&text=On%20average%2C%20recent%20college%20graduates,earn%20only%20%2430%2C000%20per%20year.

https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2022/data-on-display/education-pays.htm

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/the-college-payoff/#:~:text=A%20Bachelor's%20degree%20is%20worth,men%20at%20similar%20education%20levels.

I remember in the early 90s in so cal when meth came in and people at high school started tweaking. Didn’t see much heroin except with some private school rich kids. Fentanyl, glad that wasn’t around. That’s straight death.

It’s at 34 in 21 and likely even higher last year.

Beyond stuff like liver disease.

So your family makes you sick?

That’s very interesting. And also very sad.

Oh, I forgot about the college educated. I'm glad millennials had an opportunity to go to college. Only 20% of Gen xers were able to get a four year degree compared to roughly 40% of millennials. We couldn't afford to get any higher learning, nor did we have the time because of the multiple jobs we were required to work just to afford staples this generation takes for granted. Most of them still can't.

It's not just my story. It's my entire generation's story. And it's also the story of boomers, before me. And the same story of the silent generation before them.

Each generation has had their own struggles that were unique to their generation. Millennials don't have it any harder, and it's getting kinda old.

When the millennials grow up and start having grandkids of their own, you'll see this pattern rinse and repeat. Those new kids will complain about the raw hand they've been dealt, and how hard it is to accomplish anything, and all the millennials will be rolling their eyes and trying to explain to them the same thing I'm explaining to you.

Yeah, because domestic flights and international phone calls are major expenses for most US citizens.

By the way, your first link point to a chart which shows that "Total food budget share increased from 9.4 percent of disposable income to 10.3 percent in 2021"

https://perc.tamu.edu/PERC-Blog/PERC-Blog/Inflation-and-Falling-Purchasing-Power-Wages-Aren%E2%80%99

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>Those who go to school earn a sufficiently high wage premium that they do not require subsidization. End of story.

You destroyed your credibility in record time.

Stop vomiting up tired old talking points that don't address anything I said. You are unfathomably wrong on this, to the point that it's staggering.

Every single data point says the US is the one with a bloated, broken system that puts all the risk on the public and we're about to face a crisis over it.

No other developed country is struggling this badly or facing this much risk from higher education. For reasons I spoonfed to you but you chose to ignore.

Grow up. Pull your head out of the sand. Go study the topic before pushing your pre-canned Boomer rhetoric on others. End of story.

I dont think that would stop it because there are always new people gettinf addicted.

Personally I think the best way is legalising it and deregulating to the point its cheaper than prohibited heroin. Have it bought through pharmacies.

I think there would be a drop in young users and hopefully you could stamp it out. It would probably become something like tobacco.

Of course thats a super risky policy so nobody would give it a go.

Alcohol was at 13.1 (2020)

Wyoming topped that list with 35.6

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/alcohol-induced-death-rate-per-100000-population/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

Perdue somehow convinced FDA their pills won’t be crushed - then they advertised it as “less addictive” (???) they should all be in prison

I heard that if you say it's name three times in a mirror... you overdose!

This is reddit. They actually comment that too.

I went to school 2006 to 2010 and prescription opioids were huge. Shortly after that is when people started taking heroin as they sort of made it gradually harder to get the prescription stuff. Then obviously these last years it's all turned to fent. I'm actually surprised heroin and "common opiates" (whatever than means) haven't dropped more with the recent fentanyl scourge. I have met like 4 people in the last 2 months that died and were brought back to life from naloxone and continued using the shit. One snorted a whole 50 bag he thought was cocaine and ended up ODing in a parking lot. That guy is definitely not a fan, the rest were IV junkies.

You're using your individual experience to refute the difficulties which the entire current college age generation is facing, and you're stereotyping "this generation" based on a subset of its members who either don't see the point in trying to get a degree, or who don't have the skills/support/resources to get one.

This is a great way to stroke your own ego, but doesn't do much for resolving the problems we face as a society and a nation. Who are you to say what "this generation" thinks? This isn't about you.

Don’t show this to the “our open borders have been letting drugs into our country!” People

Fetanyl and heroin been killing like it’s their job for a decade

Just a misleading title. It wasn't a war to stop drugs, it was a war to eliminate competition

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