U.S. life expectancy declines AGAIN, a dismal trend not seen since 1915 World War I

sear said:
Yes, 100% of libertarians are on drugs. JUST KIDDIN' !! We're allowed to make bad jokes on Saturday night.

Sadly, succinctly so. Drug abuse is bad. Drug War is worse.

According to what I've read of it, before Prohibition, the most popular forms of beverage ethanol were beer & wine.

BUT !!

Because more concentrated ethanol (booze) was more compact, easier to smuggle, booze gained favor during Prohibition / the roaring '20's.

Similar story in Drug War. You've cited one example, crack cocaine is another; more highly refined, more compact to smuggle. Drug War makes matters worse.

I have what barely rises to the level of a crackpot theory about it.

Addictive personalities attach to habit.
So it seems to me the successful way to duck all that is instead of taking away the addict's drug,
provide the addict, or help the addict to find something to replace the drug addiction.
Wouldn't matter too much what that might be:
- antique restoration
- building a ship in a bottle
- finishing grad school
- vegetable gardening
- whatever

Simply take the drug away, and it creates a void in the addict's life, that craves satisfaction.

Displace the addiction with something of interest, and we avoid the void.
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agreed.
That what the 12 steps programs do. You confront your behavior, you learn your weaknesses, and you rebuild without dope..other activities ARE needed -you have to cultivate new interests and new friends.

You take control of your life by the active 12 steps- but this only works if your are determined to get clean.
you stay clean by going to meetings and growing other interests in life
 
blackascoal said:
Neither .. but you my friend are most definitively a moron.

Obama is not a liberal. We knew that .. you didn't.
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I'm just applying "liberal logic".

The Leftist narrative is ... if you're not a liberal, you're a White Supremacist.
 
guno said:
poor flyover country dying demographic
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Didn't pay much attention in geography class did you? San Francisco isn't exactly fly over country. In fact I can get to the Pacific Ocean in under 30 minutes.

And speaking of dying demographics, you're a white baby boomer. You are dying at the fastest pace.
 
Sailor said:
Fun place huh?
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Maybe I'm way off on this but did you see guno's response? It's interesting to me how liberals like guno love Cuba and Cubans until they come to the U.S. Then if they vote Republican that love is lost
 
cawacko said:
Maybe I'm way off on this but did you see guno's response? It's interesting to me how liberals like guno love Cuba and Cubans until they come to the U.S. Then if they vote Republican that love is lost
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Haven't travel much ? Big scary world out there goober, full of brown people that will get ya
 
cawacko said:
Maybe I'm way off on this but did you see guno's response? It's interesting to me how liberals like guno love Cuba and Cubans until they come to the U.S. Then if they vote Republican that love is lost
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I was referring to how "fun" Gitmo is. Cuba can be a fun place though, politics aside.
 
Time to lower the age for SS checks? They used the increasing life expectancy to justify raising the age and effectively changing the deal many of us entered into when we began making tax payments. Now we'll see them lower it back to meet new lower life expectancy? LOL No, I'm not deluded.
 
Sailor said:
I was referring to how "fun" Gitmo is. Cuba can be a fun place though, politics aside.
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I gotcha. Those I know who have visited said they enjoyed it very much. I was speaking more to the politics of people like guno who like the socialism of Cuba and the Cuban people until they come to the U.S. and vote Republican.
 
S & c #96

"... Castro says that a half century of communist rule seemed like a good idea, right up until the part where he was rushed to the hospital in a '55 Oldsmobile." Conan O'Brian
 
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