What can China learn from America's opioid/drug crisis?

[AndrewJin]

Very rare in history, the Trump regime witnesses a decline of life expectancy.
Many public health experts link it with drug epidemic in which legal prescribed drugs are used among those walking dead.

But the huge corporate interests behind this tipping point in history will continue driving this epidemic.

What can China learn from Trump regime's health doom?
How will China avoid the western phenomenon that corporate interest transcend the basic living rights of civilians?

2014 was bad enough

 

[Nilgiri]

What can China learn from Trump regime's health doom?

That its not caused by "Trump Regime". This is an issue that has started decades before already. The Trump regime may actually be the first one to put it as high priority and commit serious funding to it.

How will China avoid the western phenomenon that corporate interest transcend the basic living rights of civilians?

By enforcing strong borders, strong communities/families based on morality and resistance to vice and not over-relying on the State to fix the problem (and allowing potentially a massive fiscal burden extracted at cost and essentially immorally by force from people who made better moral choices and are productive).

Corporate interest is neutral like the free market (in fact its a manifestation of the latteR). It is not the issue. If people are moral and resistant to vice, the freemarket simply supplies with that in mind.

 

[XiangLong]

it's called social degeneracy, people lose sight of longterm goals that matter, just to get another hit or high. Hell, addicts are at one point willing to sell their own mothers and children if they could. This is why I am actuallyy glad that things like recreational drugs are looked down upon in most Asian societies as a whole, and which can land you heavy punishments. Never forget the opium wars.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

 

[AndrewJin]

it's called social degeneracy, people lose sight of longterm goals that matter, just to get another hit or high. Hell, addicts are at one point willing to sell their own mothers and children if they could. This is why I am actuallyy glad that things like recreational drugs are looked down upon in most Asian societies as a whole, and which can land you heavy punishments. Never forget the opium wars.

I like how they legalise those spirit-boosting drugs.

 

[Nilgiri]

His name was Seth Rich.

 

[AndrewJin]

Could you make a brief introduction about these videos' linkage with this thread?
Thanks Gott.

 

[nang2]

it's called social degeneracy, people lose sight of longterm goals that matter, just to get another hit or high. Hell, addicts are at one point willing to sell their own mothers and children if they could. This is why I am actuallyy glad that things like recreational drugs are looked down upon in most Asian societies as a whole, and which can land you heavy punishments. Never forget the opium wars.

And this degeneration may start since FDR. Before him, when an American failed, he blamed himself for it. After him, when an American failed, he blamed the government, the society, even past generations. I would expect less vigor among Americans in the coming decades.

 

[Jlaw]

Greedy healthcare system along with liberal thoughts is bad . In Canada they have designated area for druggies to shoot up. Lol

 

[Mista]

Strict and tough laws. Don't buy into BS such as recreational drugs or softer measures against drug crimes. Drug-free society, not drug-tolerant society.

 

[Nilgiri]

In Canada they have designated area for druggies to shoot up. Lol

Yeah that yucky place in East downtown Vancouver has a number of them.

 

[Jlaw]

Yeah that yucky place in East downtown Vancouver has a number of them.

In Toronto also.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Could you make a brief introduction about these videos' linkage with this thread?
Thanks Gott.

Mena is a tiny little town in Arkansas with a tiny little airport from where the CIA smuggled drugs from Sout America. All that happened during Bill Clinton's time as governor of Arkansas.

Does anyone of you know the term Golden Triangle?

 

[AndrewJin]

Mena is a tiny little town in Arkansas with a tiny little airport from where the CIA smuggled drugs from Sout America. All that happened during Bill Clinton's time as governor of Arkansas.

What's different here is that this new drug epidemic is characterised by legal opioid drugs prescribed by doctors and encouraged by big pharmas.

There is no way to stop it, first it is legal, second those drugs are relatively cheap for individuals.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

His name was Seth Rich.

She killed him!