Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What's wrong, Americans are dying young at alarming rates

Add in the bean counters at insurance companies determining what tests and treatments people get and when they can get them. My recent foray into sleep apnea has been an eye opener...

This is a question, not a statement:

Could there be a connection with the common practice of drugging young children to get them to behave rather than using patience and discipline? There used to be a lot of discussion about how many of the school shooters were on drugs for ADHD and such. What happens when these kids suddenly find themselves forced to cope with life without a chemical crutch? Do they get weaned off them when the become adults, continue to take them, get put on something else, or self-medicate with alcohol and street drugs?

What are the long term effects of drugs lime Ritalin and Adderal?

Well as for the Ohio part...we have a ridiculously huge opioid problem and those young deaths are largely made up of that.

You see an obit of a 23 year old and ask around...damn near every time it's heroin or something related.

Something like 400 deaths in my county just from that and my county isn't big and its not abnormal in the percentages of those deaths either.

I don’t think the numbers are cooked at all. Women are increasingly abandoning motherhood and marriage. Often, if he does have children, most of the father’s contact with them consists being financially crippled through child support. Perhaps worse is having no children at all.

For women, loneliness and a sense of hopelessness ain’t such a big issue, typically they network and derive support and companionship from their female friends.

Why this should fall most heavily on White men is because a) there’s more of them still and b) “Progressive” attitudes are more common among educated women, as a group White women are more educated than other women.

But it is not exclusively a White problem, where I’m at I see the exact same thing among educated Hispanic women. Same thing has hit the free Asian nations big time too.

It is no accident that it was Eve who bit the apple, women have always been the more suggestible sex, now they are
swallowing Progressivism and we-don’t-need-a-husband hook, line and sinker.

At the same time boys in feminist-dominated educational institutions and in popular culture are told that their normal behaviors are “toxic” and to be suppressed.

Add to that the prevalence of porn on their phones easily accessible through the formative years, young men spend even more time jerking off today than we did. For women, lesbianism and the worship of their own sexuality as an end in itself becomes an ideal. For both sexes this further stacks the odds against long-term heterosexual relationships.

Background to all of this; a mass abandonment of religion and the resulting sense of an accountable code of morality. Right and wrong becomes whatever pop culture says it is.

I don’t envy kids today.

Yeah, if the young durocs don't break us first on our healthcare premiums before they croak.

Very incite full, especially concerning women I think. Liberal, leftist women who believed the lie of feminism in the 70’s and “progressivism” since (the Eve Syndrome) intuitively know something is very wrong; they are “looking for love in all the wrong places”, and are usually very bitter and angry about what they sense they’ve lost.

Note the most angry, vitriolic, and bitter voices today in politics and in about any movement that rises to social consciousness. They are mostly very liberal women still searching for meaning.

George,

I think another factor is how women, on average, don't process stress as well as men. They get into the business world and discover just how hard and stressful it really is. As they become more exposed to these stresses, their health profile begins to look more like that of men. There's a reason we, on average, die 8 years before women. As women seek to have it all, they also get all the stress that come with it, and they are not wearing it well.

I am not sure why opiods are blamed, it is a choice .
I am soon 62 and take them in order to stay active, injuries are a good part of it and new parts aren't in the discussion.
I am very active and very fit...more so than 90% around me. I have never taken anything to get high and have never once felt this from painkillers. They get me more mobile. I am Canadian, same difference. Same problems here

Looks to me like they all have some stuff in common. Worthless parents and school systems who don't care and play favorites and the teachers go along with the "cool" kids and leave the at risk kids to self destruct.

Case told reporters their research showed a “sea of despair” in the United States among people with only a high school diploma or less.

But why are people making this choice??