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A few common sense thoughts....

The venn diagrams of those hooked on opioids and those with burdensome levels of education debt don't overlap much.

Neither does the hooked on opioids and dealing with high costs of housing and for the meth/opioid addicts, in most cases it wouldn't matter what the cost of housing is where they are, it would be too high for them.

It's easy to point to doctors over-prescribing as the reason for opioid dependency, but in reality it is more like meth in that most of the issues are from people in the nothing to lose category of life. No education, no job, etc and they self medicate to deal with the crap their life is. The doctors prescribing are not treating patients, they are running scam pain clinics and are drug dealers or being paid by them. There was a great documentary on a few years ago, wish I could find it, that showed two brothers in South FL and their pain clinic. Most of their "patients" were driving down from KY and WV, getting thousands of pills and taking them back to the trailer parks. The Dr writing the scripts didn't speak a word of english and had an MD from somewhere in Africa.

(In response to this post by Will Stewart)

Posted: 06/13/2019 at 12:35PM


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  Another example of millennial snowflakes -- WestyHokie 06/13/2019 09:28AM
  Here's an interesting sentence. -- Will Stewart  06/13/2019 11:50AM
  Here's another one.... -- 48zip 06/13/2019 1:42PM
  Gives you a sense of the lack of effort put into articles like this -- Vienna_Hokie 06/13/2019 12:35PM
  Opiod inflation, it is the worst! ** -- fordham 06/13/2019 12:10PM
  Other than college being like 3-4x more expensive now than 25 yrs ago ** -- Hokie Bird 94 06/13/2019 11:29AM
  See my longer post below ** -- WestyHokie 06/13/2019 11:39AM
  That word carries a heavy load these days -- Newt 06/13/2019 09:36AM
  Sounds like something a snowflake would say! ** -- HokieGator 06/13/2019 09:44AM
  Boomers need to shut up about college debt -- VTSnake 06/13/2019 09:33AM
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  Cost is one component..... -- 2hhoop3 06/13/2019 10:18AM
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  I told my millenial daughter the same thing. But I also told her to think -- Hokie CPA 06/13/2019 10:47AM
  And there are any number of stories that don't have your side incorporated -- hoosnowahokie 06/13/2019 10:54AM
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  You are correct -- RTFC 06/13/2019 11:15AM
  I also wonder how much of this is due to social media and marketing -- Vienna_Hokie 06/13/2019 11:36AM
  No doubt -- RTFC 06/13/2019 11:44AM
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  Your post ...... -- 2hhoop3 06/13/2019 10:47AM
  I'm actually not sure why this posted under your reply -- hoosnowahokie 06/13/2019 10:51AM
  Yes and a coke was a nickel and when I started working my -- fordham 06/13/2019 10:07AM
  What an intellectually dishonest argument -- VTSnake 06/13/2019 10:49AM
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  Yes it has, but there are cheaper choices, for instance in state tuition -- fordham 06/13/2019 11:06AM
  Is that really true now?..... -- 2hhoop3 06/13/2019 11:15AM
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  Proportionately.... -- 2hhoop3 06/13/2019 1:11PM
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