[unregistereddev]

While these points can provide interesting debate, the actual data showed that COVID and drug ODs (particularly fentanyl) were the driving force behind the change.

Your other points may be tangentially related at best, and likely unrelated.

[jeanlucneptune]

Who do you think ODs on drugs? Just random people making bad choices? Obviously not. It's people who are losing hope, losing community, and losing themselves. Read "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" from respected economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190785/de...