U.S. Life Expectancy Falls for Second Consecutive Year

[Mustang]

The last time the U.S. had a downturn at all was over two decades ago. The last time we had a two consecutive year downturn was 1962-63, which was over 50 years ago.

The reason for this downturn? The reason is drug overdoses (mostly opiods) which have soared up to previously unseen heights. And if the trend continues next year, and based on current statistics and trends there's no reason to believe it won't continue, the US will see the worst life expectancy statistics since the Spanish flu epidemic of one hundred years ago.

US life expectancy drops for second year in a row - CNN

Luckily, our president has a solution. It's a big beautiful advertising campaign. How many people think an advertising campaign is an adequate response to the scale and the scope of the problem?

 

[Tank]

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Drug use and overdose deaths are entirely voluntary. Aside from an advertising campaign, which worked with cigarettes, there isn't much else that can be done. A crackdown on drug smugglers. Increased penalties for drug pushers. Yes, but not much else. People have to, they just have to say no. They have to stop using drugs on their own.

This is very much like overeating. You look at these people that are 600, 700 pounds or more and wonder why they just didn't stop shoveling food into their mouths and how does society prevent them from doing so?

 

[TNHarley]

Drug use and overdose deaths are entirely voluntary. Aside from an advertising campaign, which worked with cigarettes, there isn't much else that can be done. A crackdown on drug smugglers. Increased penalties for drug pushers. Yes, but not much else. People have to, they just have to say no. They have to stop using drugs on their own.

This is very much like overeating. You look at these people that are 600, 700 pounds or more and wonder why they just didn't stop shoveling food into their mouths and how does society prevent them from doing so?

Some of those deaths are from bad dope. So not all of those deaths are "voluntary"

 

[Meathead]

The last time the U.S. had a downturn at all was over two decades ago. The last time we had a two consecutive year downturn was 1962-63, which was over 50 years ago.

The reason for this downturn? The reason is drug overdoses (mostly opiods) which have soared up to previously unseen heights. And if the trend continues next year, and based on current statistics and trends there's no reason to believe it won't continue, the US will see the worst life expectancy statistics since the Spanish flu epidemic of one hundred years ago.

US life expectancy drops for second year in a row - CNN

Luckily, our president has a solution. It's a big beautiful advertising campaign. How many people think an advertising campaign is an adequate response to the scale and the scope of the problem?

Now there's something Obama can legitimately claim.

I thought Obamacare was going to changes that. You know, make Americans live longer.

 

[WelfareQueen]

I blame Obamacare.

 

[TNHarley]

just wait until people start dying from the tax cuts!

 

[shockedcanadian]

That stuff is evil, stay away, treat your body like a temple.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The last time the U.S. had a downturn at all was over two decades ago. The last time we had a two consecutive year downturn was 1962-63, which was over 50 years ago.

The reason for this downturn? The reason is drug overdoses (mostly opiods) which have soared up to previously unseen heights. And if the trend continues next year, and based on current statistics and trends there's no reason to believe it won't continue, the US will see the worst life expectancy statistics since the Spanish flu epidemic of one hundred years ago.

US life expectancy drops for second year in a row - CNN

Luckily, our president has a solution. It's a big beautiful advertising campaign. How many people think an advertising campaign is an adequate response to the scale and the scope of the problem?

Ironically, this is generally a trump voter base, if they could leave the drugs alone long enough to vote.

Aside from an advertising campaign, which worked with cigarettes, there isn't much else that can be done

Spot on! Well, aside from addiction treatment, limiting over-prescription of opioid medicine, cracking down on the fentanyl black market, and providing narcan to every first responder, hospital, and family of addicts...


...but otherwise, spot on!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The last time the U.S. had a downturn at all was over two decades ago. The last time we had a two consecutive year downturn was 1962-63, which was over 50 years ago.

The reason for this downturn? The reason is drug overdoses (mostly opiods) which have soared up to previously unseen heights. And if the trend continues next year, and based on current statistics and trends there's no reason to believe it won't continue, the US will see the worst life expectancy statistics since the Spanish flu epidemic of one hundred years ago.

US life expectancy drops for second year in a row - CNN

Luckily, our president has a solution. It's a big beautiful advertising campaign. How many people think an advertising campaign is an adequate response to the scale and the scope of the problem?

Ironically, this is generally a trump voter base, if they could leave the drugs alone long enough to vote.

Aside from an advertising campaign, which worked with cigarettes, there isn't much else that can be done

Spot on! Well, aside from addiction treatment, limiting over-prescription of opioid medicine, cracking down on the fentanyl black market, and providing narcan to every first responder, hospital, and family of addicts...


...but otherwise, spot on!

None of which addresses the major cause of drug use which is the drug user. I oppose treatment centers and oppose providing first responders with narcan, families can do what they want, including locking the addict up in the basement.

There is no way around it. People have to stop using drugs IF THEY ARE EVER TO STOP USING DRUGS. Making others responsible only promotes more drug use.

 

[Moonglow]

I'll bong to that...

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Drug use and overdose deaths are entirely voluntary. Aside from an advertising campaign, which worked with cigarettes, there isn't much else that can be done. A crackdown on drug smugglers. Increased penalties for drug pushers. Yes, but not much else. People have to, they just have to say no. They have to stop using drugs on their own.

This is very much like overeating. You look at these people that are 600, 700 pounds or more and wonder why they just didn't stop shoveling food into their mouths and how does society prevent them from doing so?

Some of those deaths are from bad dope. So not all of those deaths are "voluntary"

If the person used the drug, the drug use was voluntary. The only drug use not voluntary is when someone holds an innocent person down and forcibly injects it into them or forces the pills down their throat.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Hate to harsh your mellow, but let the opioid plague run its course and clean out the gene pool.

 

[TNHarley]

Drug use and overdose deaths are entirely voluntary. Aside from an advertising campaign, which worked with cigarettes, there isn't much else that can be done. A crackdown on drug smugglers. Increased penalties for drug pushers. Yes, but not much else. People have to, they just have to say no. They have to stop using drugs on their own.

This is very much like overeating. You look at these people that are 600, 700 pounds or more and wonder why they just didn't stop shoveling food into their mouths and how does society prevent them from doing so?

Some of those deaths are from bad dope. So not all of those deaths are "voluntary"

If the person used the drug, the drug use was voluntary. The only drug use not voluntary is when someone holds an innocent person down and forcibly injects it into them or forces the pills down their throat.

What i was getting at is, they arent "volunteering" to die.

 

[g5000]

Time to start throwing some pharmaceutical company CEOs in prison for life.

 

[BluesLegend]

just wait until people start dying from the tax cuts!

I spit my drink damn you

 

[g5000]

The last time the U.S. had a downturn at all was over two decades ago. The last time we had a two consecutive year downturn was 1962-63, which was over 50 years ago.

The reason for this downturn? The reason is drug overdoses (mostly opiods) which have soared up to previously unseen heights. And if the trend continues next year, and based on current statistics and trends there's no reason to believe it won't continue, the US will see the worst life expectancy statistics since the Spanish flu epidemic of one hundred years ago.

US life expectancy drops for second year in a row - CNN

Luckily, our president has a solution. It's a big beautiful advertising campaign. How many people think an advertising campaign is an adequate response to the scale and the scope of the problem?

Ironically, this is generally a trump voter base, if they could leave the drugs alone long enough to vote.

Aside from an advertising campaign, which worked with cigarettes, there isn't much else that can be done

Spot on! Well, aside from addiction treatment, limiting over-prescription of opioid medicine, cracking down on the fentanyl black market, and providing narcan to every first responder, hospital, and family of addicts...


...but otherwise, spot on!

None of which addresses the major cause of drug use which is the drug user. I oppose treatment centers and oppose providing first responders with narcan, families can do what they want, including locking the addict up in the basement.

There is no way around it. People have to stop using drugs IF THEY ARE EVER TO STOP USING DRUGS. Making others responsible only promotes more drug use.

You are one of the most clueless, stupid, and heartless c*nts I have ever encountered.

 

[g5000]

How Drug Companies Flooded West Virginia With Opioid Pills

Drug wholesalers sent 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills into West Virginia over six years, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

Meanwhile, 1,728 West Virginians died from overdoses of these two powerful painkillers.

“I was surprised that some of the smallest pharmacies had some of the biggest numbers,” Eyre said. For example, nearly 9 million hydrocodone pills to one pharmacy in Kermit, W.Va., population 392.

Time to toss some pharmaceutical execs into prison.

 

[theHawk]

Life expectancy is so low because blacks and Hispanics kill each other so much.

 

[g5000]

Life expectancy is so low because blacks and Hispanics kill each other so much.

And because Big Pharma kills coal miners.

Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses