Sex, drugs, and rock and roll? I wrote here about how changing cultural norms over the decades caused the upward inflection point in drug deaths seen in Americans who turned, say, 18 years old in 1968 and later:https://www.takimag.com/article/white_privilege_vs_white_death_steve_sailer/ …
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Replying to @euneaux @Steve_Sailer
But why would emptiness grow exponentially from after the end of a world war?
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One reason to doubt that "emptiness" is the underlying factor is that unhappiness and suicide rates have fluctuated up and down over this time period, unlike the steady exponential increase of drug deaths (fig 2 & 8). https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019/9/long-term-trends-in-deaths-of-despair …
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Replying to @euneaux @robinhanson
That's not an unreasonable Big Picture view. But there's also a more small picture view that heroin-type drugs tend to kill a lot of people by accident.
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Attraction to heroin-type drugs is a mild form of a suicidal urge in the first place.
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What else is getting obliterated on pills other than a temporary suicide? He wanted to exit when he was alive and made it permanent. Condolences for your loss - terrible thing for everyone close to him to go through.
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Agree on both. Christianity condemns suicide for a very good reason.
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