Hello. I seek answer to the following questions:
>Why are Americans so high on narcotics compared to Europe?
>Which was first: Americans high demand for narcotics or Mexico's and South Americas high supply for them?
>How did it all begun? With hippies?
Neither, it's all big pharmas fault
Tell me more.
American population were European immigrants who went looking for better lives, so they are high risk takers, this likely an inheritable factor.
Don't forget fentanyl from China. Drug problem predates hippies though, goes back to the 19th century all the way. Morphine addiction used to be called the "soldier's disease" because its prevalence after the civil war.
First drugs laws came around WW 1, before that you just had to sign a poison register when buying it. Then women got the vote and even alcohol became illegal for 12 years.
The heroin epidemic can literally all be traced to one corporation that did a tonne of things to push opioid pain medication on people.
That's not drugs, that's just how the average woman here ages.
Also before the invention of aspirin in 1893, opium and derivatives was practically the only common pain killer. Its dangers were well known but for lack of better things its use was pretty prevalent.
true, oxycodone. The commercials even claimed its addiction potential was negligible. All this based on one letter to the editor in a scientific journal with unsubstantiated claims.
Pharmaceutical companies have always been pushing drugs on the population, before it was banned, nearly all of our over the counter drugs had meth or cocaine.
After being banned we got our fix from the Latams for a while, then that fizzled out when a concerted effort reemerged to push opioid drugs on the population, once we were hooked they raised the price 20 fold. Causing people hooked to go bankrupt on having to pay for the "medicine" they thought they needed since big pharma gives most people an incredibly long prescription for it, it isn't uncommon to see prescriptions last up to 6 months for just a simple sprained ankle for example
The Colonies were settled by convicts and other refuse from Europe, the lowest of the low.
It’s no wonder their descendants are equally degenerate.