On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Adriaan Renting <rent...@astron.nl> wrote: > > That sounds more like a conspiracy theory than a real analysis of the > problem.
Follow the money. > > > Looking at it from here in Europe, most of the analysis I've been able to > read and watch about it, points to a different cause: > > > A lack of security: People flee to drugs (alcohol, tobacco, coffee and other > (illegal) drugs) to escape stessful environments. > > > - A lack of job security > > - A lack of proper healthcare > > - Broken and single parent families > > - Poor and/or expensive education > > - Mental illness > > > What I learned from visiting the USA many times is: > > - Americans value the individual, not the collective. They have been trained > to distrust anything collective, even if it is the only way to solve an > issue. > > - Money has too much influence at all levels, especially in politics. The > combination of an election system that is 2 centuries behind the times, with > modern compute power, data gathering and media technology is corrupting the > system. > > - The USA always depended a lot on immigration and never had to keep it's > own working population well educated and healthy to run the economy. This is > changing and one of the big cultural wars raging currently. > > > The broken healthcare system is a symptom of these issues. > > > There are other reasons people get into drugs*, but from what I've read, my > impression is that these are major causes to the current problems in the > USA. > > > Successive US governments have been waging unwinnable "wars", like the "War > on Drugs" for decades, so entire industries can keep profiting. Until you > fix the problems in society the demand will not go away and the problems > will stay. > > > Cheers. > > > *) Drug use also correlates with boredom and low amounts of sunlight and an > amount of predisposition. Correlation is not always causation, but can be. > > >>>> Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> 19-3-2018 20:21 >>> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Etienne Robillard <tkad...@yandex.com> > wrote: >> You guys just made me realize something very obvious. :-) >> >> I'm in the process right now of watching the excellent documentary named >> "Drugs Inc." on Netflix and I'm basically stunned and deeply concerned >> about >> the major opioid epidemic in the US. > > Have no clue what this has to do with python, but the opioid epidemic > was created by collision between big pharma and the government. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
