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>Health researchers have some grim news for Americans: We are dying younger, and life expectancy is now down for the second straight year — something not seen in more than half a century.
>The numbers are “disturbing,” said Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch of the National Center for Health Statistics. The branch is part of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which released two reports Thursday. One focused on all causes of death and the other zeroed in on drug overdose deaths.
>A baby born in the United States in 2016 could expect to live 78.6 years, a decrease of more than a month from 2015 and more than two months from 2014. That’s the first two-year decline since 1962 and 1963 when spikes in flu deaths were likely to blame, Anderson said.
>Before 2015, the last one-year decline was in 1993 and was attributed partly to the AIDS epidemic.
>The declines are shockingly out of sync with a larger world in which lives are getting longer and healthier, public health experts said.
>At first glance, the new statistics present a paradox: Overall death rates for the nation actually fell in 2016, and so did deaths from seven of the 10 biggest killers, including cancer and heart disease. But life expectancy fell, too — because death rates ticked up in people under 65.
>Fewer people are making it to 65. And the biggest killers of young people include what statisticians call “unintentional injuries” — a category that covers drug overdoses, traffic crashes and falls. Deaths from those causes rose 9.7% in 2016.
>A second CDC report makes it clear that drug overdoses are driving that wave of premature deaths, killing 63,600 people in 2016. The death rate from overdoses tripled from 6.1 per 100,000 people in 1999 to 19.8 in 2016.
>And it spiked 21% from 2015 to 2016, the report says.
What do we do about the drug epidemic?
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>>98533
I have played around with this problem in my head. On one hand, I would love to see all drugs with no medical use banned. However, I recognize that this would cause a continued “war on drugs” where the corrupt government controls the drug flow anyway.
There are very few options here. If we make all drugs legal, then overdose death and impairment of ability caused by drugs will cause death to innocents. But the opposite approach, banning them, will cause an increase in crime, from my understanding, in order to obtain more illegal drugs. This crime also leads to death of the innocent.
From my stance, I still hold for a ban on drugs, even lesser substances that impair people, such as alcohol. This would mean a more productive nation as more money is potentially saved or spent on useful things. The labor force will also be more productive with less sick days to deal with side effects, more focus, and less dependence on not only the drug, but the employer as well. The crime would be a problem, but if enough force was used to end the crime, such as executions of large drug dealers that have killed directly or not thousands, and death penalty to anyone that kills under influence of any drug (none of which the government would ever do), we could possibly see a decrease in that as well.
My plan falls apart at the federal level of course. With the drug war just a cover for the trade of drugs, we need a government free of this large scale corruption. This is of course impossible… for the time being.
TL;DR *shrug*
I have played around with this problem in my head. On one hand, I would love to see all drugs with no medical use banned. However, I recognize that this would cause a continued “war on drugs” where the corrupt government controls the drug flow anyway.
There are very few options here. If we make all drugs legal, then overdose death and impairment of ability caused by drugs will cause death to innocents. But the opposite approach, banning them, will cause an increase in crime, from my understanding, in order to obtain more illegal drugs. This crime also leads to death of the innocent.
From my stance, I still hold for a ban on drugs, even lesser substances that impair people, such as alcohol. This would mean a more productive nation as more money is potentially saved or spent on useful things. The labor force will also be more productive with less sick days to deal with side effects, more focus, and less dependence on not only the drug, but the employer as well. The crime would be a problem, but if enough force was used to end the crime, such as executions of large drug dealers that have killed directly or not thousands, and death penalty to anyone that kills under influence of any drug (none of which the government would ever do), we could possibly see a decrease in that as well.
My plan falls apart at the federal level of course. With the drug war just a cover for the trade of drugs, we need a government free of this large scale corruption. This is of course impossible… for the time being.
TL;DR *shrug*
>>98533
>What do we do about the drug epidemic?
China has a strategy where they outlaw western social media sites like Facebook and they replace them with Chinese social media sites like Sina Weibo. Maybe we could outlaw drugs like heroine and replace them with safer less addictive drugs like kratom. It is easier to treat a kratom addiction then it is a heroine addiction and you would be much less likely to die of an over dose.
>What do we do about the drug epidemic?
China has a strategy where they outlaw western social media sites like Facebook and they replace them with Chinese social media sites like Sina Weibo. Maybe we could outlaw drugs like heroine and replace them with safer less addictive drugs like kratom. It is easier to treat a kratom addiction then it is a heroine addiction and you would be much less likely to die of an over dose.
>>98551
Lets compare the options of banning drugs and legalizing drugs.
Legalizing all drugs will lead to overdoses and other health problems to the population. Supply and demand states that if supply increases then prices decreases. This along with drugs being more accessible due to them being legal and drugs being socially acceptable means more people will be doing them. The drugs will not only effect the people doing drugs but also everyone around them as well with the western world being a welfare state meaning the responsible people will suffer more than they already do.
Banning drugs leads to more crime because supply and demand states that if supply decreases then price increases, incentivising criminals to sell drugs on the black market because a fortune can be made there. The rise in crime means the state will either have to hire more cops or redirect current cops to the problem which makes crimes non-drug related rises also. Both cases would harm innocent people.
Banning and legalizing drugs both would lead to innocent people suffering. The real question is, which one will lead to the least amount of innocent people suffering.
I say legalize drugs but also force the drug addicts to face the consequences of their own actions. Have them pay for the problems they inflict on themselves and if they accidentally kill themselves with drugs, so be it.
Lets compare the options of banning drugs and legalizing drugs.
Legalizing all drugs will lead to overdoses and other health problems to the population. Supply and demand states that if supply increases then prices decreases. This along with drugs being more accessible due to them being legal and drugs being socially acceptable means more people will be doing them. The drugs will not only effect the people doing drugs but also everyone around them as well with the western world being a welfare state meaning the responsible people will suffer more than they already do.
Banning drugs leads to more crime because supply and demand states that if supply decreases then price increases, incentivising criminals to sell drugs on the black market because a fortune can be made there. The rise in crime means the state will either have to hire more cops or redirect current cops to the problem which makes crimes non-drug related rises also. Both cases would harm innocent people.
Banning and legalizing drugs both would lead to innocent people suffering. The real question is, which one will lead to the least amount of innocent people suffering.
I say legalize drugs but also force the drug addicts to face the consequences of their own actions. Have them pay for the problems they inflict on themselves and if they accidentally kill themselves with drugs, so be it.
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Legalize and add 100%tax that goes to healthcare and make it regulated.
If they want to get wasted they'll have to pay.
People will always find ways to get high and this way it won't clog up the court system plus the people get stuff that doesn't kill them.
On the negative side: The better the quality of the drug the harder it is to get clean.
>>98638
>The drugs will not only effect the people doing drugs but also everyone around them as well with the western world being a welfare state meaning the responsible people will suffer more than they already do.
They always do that.
Of course the best thing would be if the world wasn't such a shithole and people wouldn't numb themselves or flee from reality.
Whatever/fuck-it attitude is what gets many people fucked.
If they want to get wasted they'll have to pay.
People will always find ways to get high and this way it won't clog up the court system plus the people get stuff that doesn't kill them.
On the negative side: The better the quality of the drug the harder it is to get clean.
>>98638
>The drugs will not only effect the people doing drugs but also everyone around them as well with the western world being a welfare state meaning the responsible people will suffer more than they already do.
They always do that.
Of course the best thing would be if the world wasn't such a shithole and people wouldn't numb themselves or flee from reality.
Whatever/fuck-it attitude is what gets many people fucked.
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>>98533
Perhaps a placebo could be of use to give people the effect they so dearly desire. Start a sort of propaganda to build up people's belief in digital drugs. The consensus determines the reality after all.
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/digital-drugs/
https://www.youtube.com/user/IDosingFan/videos
http://www.i-doser.com/
The problem however, is how you shill and convince an addict that they have the same effect.
Perhaps a placebo could be of use to give people the effect they so dearly desire. Start a sort of propaganda to build up people's belief in digital drugs. The consensus determines the reality after all.
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/digital-drugs/
https://www.youtube.com/user/IDosingFan/videos
http://www.i-doser.com/
The problem however, is how you shill and convince an addict that they have the same effect.
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>>98533
Let them die, mandate drug courses in grade school education to inform the next generation about the effects of drugs on the body. Half the problem is that no one fucking knows anything about what drugs like these can do to you apart from making you feel good. You think as many people would be doing Ecstasy if they knew it was literally blowing holes in their brains?
As for the addicts that exist, they made their choice and society is better off with them dead sooner rather than later, there is absolutely no need to bubble wrap people. Posting a pony because whatever.
Let them die, mandate drug courses in grade school education to inform the next generation about the effects of drugs on the body. Half the problem is that no one fucking knows anything about what drugs like these can do to you apart from making you feel good. You think as many people would be doing Ecstasy if they knew it was literally blowing holes in their brains?
As for the addicts that exist, they made their choice and society is better off with them dead sooner rather than later, there is absolutely no need to bubble wrap people. Posting a pony because whatever.
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