[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=svelte][quote=FlyerInHi]
The red states have more druggies than anywhere.[/quote]
Please support that with data.[/quote]
I meant the growth rates. The big cities in blue states are saturated already and the cities are gentrifying so drug use is not growing. Consumer goods always seek new markets and new markets are in suburban, exurban and rural areas.
West Virginia has the worse overdose rate. There’s not a lot of a data of rural areas.
But, never mind, I think I’m wrong. No worries, good family values will prevent any problem in wholesome, god fearing red state areas. The red states have drugs well under control. We should concentrate research and resources on big coastal cities.
So I ask you to prove your statement, you say nevermind and then tout several more unproven points.
The articles you link to are interesting and worrisome, but don’t prove either your original nor revised hypotheses.
I wouldn’t get too spun up about what the drug dujour is this year. Popularity of specific drugs rise and fall faster than hemlines. Folks freak out at what is currently increasing. Shoot, I remember in the 1980s papers were stating that crack cocaine was going to kill this country. We were going to have crack babies flooding hospitals. Now – nary a word about crack or crack babies. Druggies have moved on to a new shiny drug. And they always will.
