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by aortailwjrt 1099 days ago
Alcoholism is a problem in many indigenous communities, because alcohol affects many indigenous people much more severely than it affects people descended from Europe and Asia. But substance abuse is a problem more generally in pretty much all poor communities around the world, and also in pretty much any very isolated community where people are flat out bored all the time. And many, perhaps most indigenous communities have been intentionally fenced into poverty and isolation.