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Re:U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives by flexie on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:56AM (#41579798)
The American numbers are still incredibly high. The EU (with a much higher population), has around 6-7,000 drug related deaths per year: https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/european-drug-report...

Drug use is usually seen as a poverty problem, and on this platform we are constantly reminded that the US has GDP figures that dwarf the European.

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Re:U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:26AM (#41580955)
> Drug use is usually seen as a poverty problem, and on this platform we are constantly reminded that the US has GDP figures that dwarf the European.

The US is loaded with systems that pressure resources and means upward. I spent the 2010s in hunger-level poverty, with minor children. My kids were a few of the millions, who got to experience getting their only-regular-meals in schools.

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