US opioid deaths have now surpassed post-Soviet Russian vodka deaths
US opioid deaths have now surpassed post-Soviet Russian vodka deaths
US opioid deaths have now surpassed post-Soviet Russian vodka deaths
I also heard life expectancy over the last 3 years dropped 3 years, which is the same rate of change that post-Soviet Russia experienced from shock therapy liberalization.
And unlike post-Soviet Russia, the collapse hasn't even truly begun.
Yeah, I saw that after covid in particular there's been a significant drop.
3rd Opium War is a civil war.
2017: Mortality Crisis Redux: The Economics of Despair
The health crisis afflicting working-class Americans recalls similar symptoms in Russia following the collapse of communism
history repeating and all that
wait a minute, you can die for excess of vodka?
Alcohol poisoning, cirrhosis. Probably suicides, murders, car crashes, etc.