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    Default Trump election support highest in areas with highest rates of opioid drug use

    Earlier research found president over-performed in areas with high drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates

    Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election was greatest in the counties with the highest rates of chronic prescription opioid use, according to a new study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.

    The study found that Mr Trump received about 39 per cent of the 2016 vote in the 638 counties with the lowest rates of long-term (90-day supply or more) Medicare opioid prescriptions, but about 60 per cent of the vote in the 693 counties with the highest rates of long-term opioid use.

    All told, on a scale from zero to 100, where zero indicates no correlation and 100 indicates perfect correlation, the relationship between chronic opioid use and the 2016 presidential vote scored a 42.

    Maps from the paper illustrating the raw rates of long-term opioid use and the 2016 Trump vote share at the county level illustrate some of the correlation. Certain areas of the country, including parts of the mountain West and a wide swath of Appalachia, stand out on both maps. There are some areas of discordance, however, including much of the northern plains (low opioid rates, high Trump support) and deep South (high opioid rates, low Trump support).

    The numbers don't at all suggest that opioid use was a causal factor in the 2016 presidential vote. Rather, "individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use," the report found. Those measures included income, disability coverage, insurance and unemployment rates.

    Still, correcting for those factors didn't remove the relationship between the Trump vote and opioid use entirely. "Adjusting for county-level socioeconomic measures in linear regression models explained approximately two-thirds of the association of opioid rates and presidential voting rates," the authors write. That last third remains something of a mystery.

    These findings dovetail with some other research that's come out since the election. A December 2016 study found, for instance, that "Trump over-performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8413081.html

    Morons, psychopaths, racists, traitors, and drug addicts.

    Explains a lot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    Earlier research found president over-performed in areas with high drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates

    Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election was greatest in the counties with the highest rates of chronic prescription opioid use, according to a new study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.

    The study found that Mr Trump received about 39 per cent of the 2016 vote in the 638 counties with the lowest rates of long-term (90-day supply or more) Medicare opioid prescriptions, but about 60 per cent of the vote in the 693 counties with the highest rates of long-term opioid use.

    All told, on a scale from zero to 100, where zero indicates no correlation and 100 indicates perfect correlation, the relationship between chronic opioid use and the 2016 presidential vote scored a 42.

    Maps from the paper illustrating the raw rates of long-term opioid use and the 2016 Trump vote share at the county level illustrate some of the correlation. Certain areas of the country, including parts of the mountain West and a wide swath of Appalachia, stand out on both maps. There are some areas of discordance, however, including much of the northern plains (low opioid rates, high Trump support) and deep South (high opioid rates, low Trump support).

    The numbers don't at all suggest that opioid use was a causal factor in the 2016 presidential vote. Rather, "individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use," the report found. Those measures included income, disability coverage, insurance and unemployment rates.

    Still, correcting for those factors didn't remove the relationship between the Trump vote and opioid use entirely. "Adjusting for county-level socioeconomic measures in linear regression models explained approximately two-thirds of the association of opioid rates and presidential voting rates," the authors write. That last third remains something of a mystery.

    These findings dovetail with some other research that's come out since the election. A December 2016 study found, for instance, that "Trump over-performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8413081.html

    Morons, psychopaths, racists, traitors, and drug addicts.

    Explains a lot.


    which is why I keep pointing out how drug addled the trumpsters are on here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    Earlier research found president over-performed in areas with high drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates

    Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election was greatest in the counties with the highest rates of chronic prescription opioid use, according to a new study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.

    The study found that Mr Trump received about 39 per cent of the 2016 vote in the 638 counties with the lowest rates of long-term (90-day supply or more) Medicare opioid prescriptions, but about 60 per cent of the vote in the 693 counties with the highest rates of long-term opioid use.

    All told, on a scale from zero to 100, where zero indicates no correlation and 100 indicates perfect correlation, the relationship between chronic opioid use and the 2016 presidential vote scored a 42.

    Maps from the paper illustrating the raw rates of long-term opioid use and the 2016 Trump vote share at the county level illustrate some of the correlation. Certain areas of the country, including parts of the mountain West and a wide swath of Appalachia, stand out on both maps. There are some areas of discordance, however, including much of the northern plains (low opioid rates, high Trump support) and deep South (high opioid rates, low Trump support).

    The numbers don't at all suggest that opioid use was a causal factor in the 2016 presidential vote. Rather, "individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use," the report found. Those measures included income, disability coverage, insurance and unemployment rates.

    Still, correcting for those factors didn't remove the relationship between the Trump vote and opioid use entirely. "Adjusting for county-level socioeconomic measures in linear regression models explained approximately two-thirds of the association of opioid rates and presidential voting rates," the authors write. That last third remains something of a mystery.

    These findings dovetail with some other research that's come out since the election. A December 2016 study found, for instance, that "Trump over-performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8413081.html

    Morons, psychopaths, racists, traitors, and drug addicts.

    Explains a lot.
    Not surprising. The right wing Trump cock suckers on this forum post like they've just taken a hit off their meth pipe.

    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    The dope on the Donald: chronic opioid use associated with Trump support, you would have to be high or uneducated to vote for the orange clown!


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    Researchers Find a Link Between Trump Voters and Opioid Use

    “Support for the Republican candidate in the 2016 election is a marker for physical conditions, economic circumstances, and cultural forces associated with opioid use,” the authors say.
    https://www.motherjones.com/politics...opioid-crisis/
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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    Researchers Find a Link Between Trump Voters and Opioid Use

    “Support for the Republican candidate in the 2016 election is a marker for physical conditions, economic circumstances, and cultural forces associated with opioid use,” the authors say.
    https://www.motherjones.com/politics...opioid-crisis/
    If that is the case, then can we agree that voter ID isn't really that hard to get?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirt McGirt View Post
    If that is the case, then can we agree that voter ID isn't really that hard to get?
    WHAT?

    Yet another drug-addicted Trumpkin.
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    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    Morons, psychopaths, racists, traitors, and drug addicts.

    Explains a lot.
    absolutely correct.......it explains why demmycrats had such difficulty turning out the vote.......they were all stoned........

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post

    “Support for the Republican candidate in the 2016 election is a marker for physical conditions, economic circumstances, and cultural forces associated with opioid use,” the authors say.
    because the authors were incredibly stupid........

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    Republicans, Your Voters Are on Drugs. Please Help Them.
    excerpts

    Trump country is also opioid country. Fully 77 out of 82 counties with very high rates of opioid deaths—defined as 15 people or more per 100,000— voted for Trump in 2016.

    Trump voters are dying in these places. If the GOP wants to keep winning elections, it needs to stop this trend.

    According to JAMA, one factor in some addicts switching from prescription opioids to heroin is drug pricing. So, unless we go after drug prices and hard—and to be clear, Republicans are not doing that— we’re not eliminating a root cause of heroin addiction with this bill.
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/republ...ease-help-them
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    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    The numbers don't at all suggest that opioid use was a causal factor in the 2016 presidential vote. Rather, "individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use," the report found. Those measures included income, disability coverage, insurance and unemployment rates.
    Yes, it’s good to pass measures that offer non-opioid solutions to patients in pain. IV-administered Tylenol is obviously less deadly than opium-based drugs
    idiotic. Tylenol is Tylenol no matter the route of ingestion..

    There a re a lot of boomers in pain now. My sister has cellulitis -she just got of the hospital and they gave her 9 pain pills? WTF are 9 pills going to do for her? that lasted abuot 3 days

    War on Opiods = war on pain management

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    Who do the Colorado pot heads vote for?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hvilleherb View Post
    Who do the Colorado pot heads vote for?
    :0) You're comparing weed to opioids?

    ... amazing.
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    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    idiotic. Tylenol is Tylenol no matter the route of ingestion..

    There a re a lot of boomers in pain now. My sister has cellulitis -she just got of the hospital and they gave her 9 pain pills? WTF are 9 pills going to do for her? that lasted abuot 3 days

    War on Opiods = war on pain management
    .. or, do nothing about opioids.

    'War' over.

    Lots of dead republicans.
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    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    Lonely and unhappy people elected Donald Trump: That could be a sign of hope
    American misery crashed to a startling new low in 2017, despite a strong economy. It’s not a coincidence

    The 2016 American presidential election is a political corpse. We continue to pick it apart in an effort understand how a manifestly incompetent, proudly ignorant, racist and sexist demagogue like Donald Trump could have possibly defeated Hillary Clinton, and what this portends for the country.

    More than 15 months after the ignominious day when Trump won the White House, what have we learned?

    We know that racism, nativism and white victimology were crucial motivations for Trump's voters. We know that white identity politics disguised as anger about the economy, globalization and "elites" also propelled Trump's victory.

    We know there is a crisis in faith among the American people regarding our democratic institutions; a majority of the American people do not consider civic literacy a virtue.

    For several decades authoritarianism has been increasing among Americans, and this is especially true for Republicans and right-leaning independents. These voters were drawn to Donald Trump because they share his authoritarian values.

    We know that Russian efforts to undermine American democracy by manipulating low-information voters -- especially Republicans and others immersed in the right-wing echo chamber -- were remarkably effective.

    There is another variable, little discussed, that also helps to explain Trump's rise to power and the fanatical support he enjoys from Republican and other right-leaning voters.

    In the United States collective well-being and happiness have been decreasing for at least a decade. This is correlated with an increase in loneliness and feelings of social isolation and alienation.

    A new report from Gallup highlights this problem. It explains that nearly half of U.S. states "saw their well-being scores decline by a statistically significant margin in 2017," while none of the 50 states "saw statistically significant improvement from the year before. ... The large number of states with declines in well-being in 2017 is particularly notable given that Americans' confidence in the economy and perceptions of the job market are substantially better in 2017 than they were in 2009."

    The Gallup report continues:

    Many of the states showing declines in their well-being scores worsened on the same set of well-being metrics. These include:

    An increase in experiencing significant worry on any given day
    A sharp uptick in reporting "little interest or pleasure in doing things"
    An increase in clinical diagnoses of depression
    Elevated reports of daily physical pain
    A decline in reports of receiving "positive energy" from friends and family members
    A decline in having "someone who encourages you to be healthy"
    A drop in reports of liking "what you do each day"
    A decrease in those who have a leader in their life who makes them "enthusiastic about the future"
    A decline in the percentage who report that they are reaching their goals
    A reduction in satisfaction with standard of living (compared to peers)
    This mix of alienation, loneliness, despair and angst provided the perfect breeding ground for the authoritarian populism that Trump rode to victory. Social pathology does not encourage healthy democratic politics: Trumpism is the proof, as is the rise of right-wing authoritarianism across Europe and around the world.
    https://www.salon.com/2018/03/09/lon...-sign-of-hope/

    Unhappy right-wing people .. which can be evidenced every single day right here on this board.
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    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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