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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to US NewsEnglish · 2 years ago

US opioid deaths have now surpassed post-Soviet Russian vodka deaths

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US opioid deaths have now surpassed post-Soviet Russian vodka deaths

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to US NewsEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • https://www.statista.com/statistics/1016379/deaths-alcohol-disorders-russia/
  • https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/drug-overdose-deaths.php
  • https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html
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  • freagle
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    I also heard life expectancy over the last 3 years dropped 3 years, which is the same rate of change that post-Soviet Russia experienced from shock therapy liberalization.

    • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️
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      And unlike post-Soviet Russia, the collapse hasn’t even truly begun.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      Yeah, I saw that after covid in particular there’s been a significant drop.

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    3rd Opium War is a civil war.

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    2017: Mortality Crisis Redux: The Economics of Despair

    The health crisis afflicting working-class Americans recalls similar symptoms in Russia following the collapse of communism

    2020: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      history repeating and all that

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    wait a minute, you can die for excess of vodka?

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      Alcohol poisoning, cirrhosis. Probably suicides, murders, car crashes, etc.

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