1 in 5 deaths of US adults aged 20 to 49 is from excessive drinking

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Posted by griff
11/02/2022 4:42 pm 		#1

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/health/drinking-deaths-us-study-wellness/index.html
I used to binge a long time ago. I chose to stop cold turkey because once started I had no brakes. YMMV. It seems like we live in a deeply unhappy society. I'd say our economy, religions, and politics all play a part.
 

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Posted by Flint
11/02/2022 5:29 pm 		#2

I was going home every day and drinking a couple glasses of hard cider with shots of liquor in it, 7 days a week with anxiety pills also. I've stopped both because some of my liver and kidney numbers were not on the good end of the normal scale. I feel the doom of a collapsing society weighing down on me, and especially, my poor kids. Everything is going downhill fast. The situation for a normal working-class person gets harder and harder, and they just keep ratcheting down on it with no end in sight. We don't have a representative democracy, and we've probably got a few months left before the fascists set up permanent shop. The planetary ecosystem is collapsing and we're barely doing anything about it.

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Posted by griff
11/03/2022 6:02 am 		#3

I can't argue with that. I hear talk of "reforming" Social Security by raising the retirement age at the same time that American's life expectancy is falling. Doing the work I do, I meet plenty of Grandparents broken by years living on the knife's edge, who are left taking care of the little people when their kids and grandkids break under the strain. Watching workers in shit jobs get blamed for worldwide inflation is the icing on the damn cake.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 
Posted by Clodfobble
11/03/2022 9:48 am 		#4

I hear that. There is a 70-something working class woman in our extended family who is currently raising a "grandchild," except the kid is actually the abandoned daughter of her dead son's ex-girlfriend (they became exes before his death, it's not the son's kid, and both her son and the kid's mom had drug/alcohol/mental health problems.) There is no legal paperwork for this--she just literally had this unrelated kid dumped on her years ago and has been rolling with it ever since. Everyone who hears about it is like "why??" and her only response is "because no one else is going to."

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Posted by xoxoxoBruce
1/14/2023 11:10 pm 		#5

An hour ago there was an ad on TV for a rehab center, might have been a chain as I wasn't paying close attention, But at the end the guy says there are 100,000 alcohol dependent people in the US.
I'M saying is that all?? Out of 330 million?? Sounds low to me, maybe 100,000 who are alcohol dependent and can afford that place.

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Posted by griff
1/15/2023 6:36 am 		#6

That seems really low, maybe kids are going straight to fentanyl.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 
Posted by monster
1/15/2023 9:37 pm 		#7

Well thank goodness I'm safe now I'm 52!

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Posted by griff
3/27/2023 6:28 am 		#8

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy
We're doing it wrong.
 

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 
Posted by TheNeverWas
3/28/2023 5:43 pm 		#9

monster wrote:

Well thank goodness I'm safe now I'm 52!

In my current state, I'm feeling a little left out....
 

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Posted by tw
3/28/2023 9:07 pm 		#10

griff wrote:

That seems really low, maybe kids are going straight to fentanyl.

For two years in a row, the American life expectancy has dropped.  As it has increased in every other western nation.  Research indicates this is happening due to most every reason.  Alcohol is only one.  Drugs are another. Guns also are causing more deaths.  Across all age groups except one.  Seventy year olds are not seeing this reduction in life expectancy.

 

 
Posted by griff
3/29/2023 6:20 am 		#11

We aren't even getting kids through childhood.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 
Posted by monster
3/29/2023 10:36 pm 		#12

However.....

85% of adult deaths in the US are due to excessive statistics.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity  Amelia Earhart
 
Posted by Flint
3/30/2023 2:33 pm 		#13

monster wrote:

However.....

85% of adult deaths in the US are due to excessive statistics.



 

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Posted by griff
3/31/2023 5:56 am 		#14

*chortle*

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 
Posted by tw
3/31/2023 7:07 am 		#15

monster wrote:

85% of adult deaths in the US are due to excessive statistics.

Always blame the messenger.

Being a mailman is also dangerous.  We simply call it by a different name - going postal.

 

 


 
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