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by flexie
631 days ago
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The American numbers are still incredibly high. The EU (with a much higher population), has around 6-7,000 drug related deaths per year:
https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/european-drug-report... Drug use is usually seen as a poverty problem, and on this platform we are constantly reminded that the US has GDP figures that dwarf the European. |
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The US is loaded with systems that pressure resources and means upward. I spent the 2010s in hunger-level poverty, with minor children. My kids were a few of the millions, who got to experience getting their only-regular-meals in schools.