Why Is Drug Use So Rampant In The US?

by hamilcarr 50 Replies latest jw friends

  • inrainbows
    inrainbows
    #1 Lithuania:81.9 per 100,000 people
    #2 Russia:74.1 per 100,000 people
    #3 Latvia:71.4 per 100,000 people
    #4 Estonia:64.6 per 100,000 people
    #5 Belarus:55.7 per 100,000 people
    #6 Hungary:55.5 per 100,000 people
    #7 Sri Lanka:46.9 per 100,000 people
    #8 Slovenia:45.1 per 100,000 people
    #9 Finland:43.4 per 100,000 people
    #10 Kazakhstan:39.7 per 100,000 people
    #11 Ukraine:38.2 per 100,000 people
    #12 Belgium:37.3 per 100,000 people
    #13 Croatia:34.6 per 100,000 people
    #14 Austria:34.2 per 100,000 people
    #15 Luxembourg:30.8 per 100,000 people
    #16 France:30.4 per 100,000 people
    #17 Switzerland:29.5 per 100,000 people
    #18 Moldova:29.5 per 100,000 people
    #19 Czech Republic:28.1 per 100,000 people
    #20 Bulgaria:25.3 per 100,000 people
    #21 Japan:25 per 100,000 people
    #22 Poland:24.7 per 100,000 people
    #23 Denmark:24.1 per 100,000 people
    #24 Kyrgyzstan:22.6 per 100,000 people
    #25 Germany:21.8 per 100,000 people
    #26 Canada:21.5 per 100,000 people
    #27 Australia:21.5 per 100,000 people
    #28 New Zealand:20.5 per 100,000 people
    #29 Sweden:20 per 100,000 people
    #30 United States:

    19.8 per 100,000 people

    http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_sui_rat_mal-health-suicide-rate-males

    1 Colombia:0.617847 per 1,000 people
    #2 South Africa:0.496008 per 1,000 people
    #3 Jamaica:0.324196 per 1,000 people
    #4 Venezuela:0.316138 per 1,000 people
    #5 Russia:0.201534 per 1,000 people
    #6 Mexico:0.130213 per 1,000 people
    #7 Estonia:0.107277 per 1,000 people
    #8 Latvia:0.10393 per 1,000 people
    #9 Lithuania:0.102863 per 1,000 people
    #10 Belarus:0.0983495 per 1,000 people
    #11 Ukraine:0.094006 per 1,000 people
    #12 Papua New Guinea:0.0838593 per 1,000 people
    #13 Kyrgyzstan:0.0802565 per 1,000 people
    #14 Thailand:0.0800798 per 1,000 people
    #15 Moldova:0.0781145 per 1,000 people
    #16 Zimbabwe:0.0749938 per 1,000 people
    #17 Seychelles:0.0739025 per 1,000 people
    #18 Zambia:0.070769 per 1,000 people
    #19 Costa Rica:0.061006 per 1,000 people
    #20 Poland:0.0562789 per 1,000 people
    #21 Georgia:0.0511011 per 1,000 people
    #22 Uruguay:0.045082 per 1,000 people
    #23 Bulgaria:0.0445638 per 1,000 people
    #24 United States:0.042802 per 1,000 people

    http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

    And the moral of this story is that if your country appears in BOTH lists, you live in a miserable dangerous place.

    However, as MOST of the European countries with higher suicide rates have murder rate half (or less) that of the USA, I really don't know what point BTS is trying to make by bringing suicide into the conversation as when viewed in context of all un-natural deaths the USA still is clearly a place suffering from severe problems with its soceity. Drug use doesn't cause "CarJacking, Murder" Andre. That stuff doesn't happen nearly as much in other countries with drugs. Life is just cheap in America and has always been so.

    In 1902 London and New York had similar levels of gun control. The Americans were killing each other at about five times the rate of the British then, as they are now.

    But this isn;t about suicide or gun control, it's about drugs, and damaging levels of drug use are a sign of a sick society. Period.

    Every society bar one uses drugs. It's when use becomes abuse you ned to wonder why?

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