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Is it a matter of historical contingency or macro economic force that the parts of the country with slow growing economies like the NE and Rust Belt MW are turning to drugs like opioids that kill you fast while fast growing eg California or Colorado are just smoking lots of weed
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Replying to @toad_spotted
Do you have a longer time-series? I wonder if CA already had been dealing with heroin for so long that they either had institutions in place or had culled out potential druggies (and then the Sacklers happened)
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Yeah, will look. Also, among whites there's a clear selection issue (lower-income whites driven out of the West Coast by property values) though that may be a subset of "macroeconomic forces"
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it's still interesting; parallel to the detroit effect where the cheap real estate attracts more deadbeats
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I've wondered if cheap real estate also has a direct effect of people using their larger discretionary income for more drugs and alcohol.
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