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At its peak a few years ago in the US, about 1.2% of the population was opiate dependent. In 1949 in China, 4.4% of the population was opiate dependent. Pretty stark that the rate per capita was almost quadruple. Of course, the potency of what people in China in 1949 were using was significantly lower on average.
Wait I thought drugs are illegal? How come there are still opioid addicts?
fossilesquePayback for the Opium Wars.
CarbonIceDragonthatd be if it was the british getting opium surely?
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dwe/82011.htm
It was more than the British. The Americans were quite involved too.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-old-money-opium-trade-fortunes/
Not really... the US did this to itself.
BeeegScaaawyCrippleno let me blame the CCCP for my horrific lifelong injuries it's more fun that way.
Because hurting more people who have nothing to do with the politics of it is justifiable at all...
Direct inheritors within a historically patrilineal society = nothing to do with. Where is this fictional universe where generational wealth doesn't exist?
They still had nothing to do with it. Benefiting in a vague way generations later doesn't make anyone capable of traveling back in time.
If you are gratified by turning people into addicts then you're a cruel asshole.
In no way supporting America/Britain or Chinas actions.
But the connection between wealth and opportunity 200 years ago to today is not as vague as you've made it out to me. There's a reason that the groups that hold advantage over others have remained the same for the past several centuries (European colonialism, chattel slavery, race science etc).
So what? Can the Chinese workers murder the political and business leaders because Mao murdered millions decades ago and they benefit from it today? Do the sins of the parents pass through their entire bloodline and forever? Turning people, who didn't have anything to do with the opium wars, into addicts over some centuries old desire for vengeance is just cruelty. You also aren't just affecting people who had a small numbers of their ancestors involved but people who never had any ancestors involved who live in America, people from all over the world. Just target white people, too? So it's now a racially targetted form of violence, too?
Can Japan and Korea murder Chinese people because of the wars of the past? Can the Chinese kill Japanese for the atrocities of WW2? Should the distinct non-Han Chinese ethnic groups seek vengeance on the Han Chinese for their historic acts of genocidal superiority, violence, forced relocation and theft that they prosper from today? There is reasons Han Chinese hold advantage over others and have remained the same for Millenia, afterall.
Not advocating for the perpetuation of racial violence, even though it is where Western Europe and its settler nations have derived the lion's share their disproportionate wealth. Simply pointing out that those advantages have passed down from generation to generation via traditionally patrilineal modes of inheritance. Failing to acknowledge that would be an ignorant reflection on history.
Can opium really be considered an opi-oid when it’s the OG?
Is the opioid epidemic crisis in America still bad?
Looks not great. Assume that Narcan has been pulling these numbers down a bit so probably need a different data set.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_drug_overdose_death_rates_and_totals_over_time
Oof & June 2025:
New Report: U.S. drug overdose deaths rise again after hopeful decline
Good thing no more Narcan! Thanks RFK.
That's "just" there death rate, the addiction problem to (semi-)legal opioids is probably alleviated only by falling median purchasing power & loss is health insurance/healthcare accessibility.
The US flag always looks like it's for clowns when put against other flags. Americans prob don't see it because they're used to it, but it's got all the hallmarks. Uncle Sam always looked like a Ronald McDonald for kids of drafting age and up.
Meanwhile, China should go back to the Qing flags; dope af—no pun intended. The new one with the sun up the top left is alright, but very boring.
I dunno who these guys on the bottom-left are. Placeholder graphic?
May I present the flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory
I mean... Yeah?
This is just a difference in appreciation for cultural styles, not a particularly cutting observation. The US has used the stars & bars bunting for circus performances and celebrations for literal centuries. The uncle sam stiltwalker is a deeply iconic image in american culture for a very good reason, after all.
Yeah we're loud, obnoxious, and showy with a strong tradition of carny bullshit in every aspect of our culture. Motherfucker we brought carny bullshit into religion then exported it back to the carnival. You're in the deep south and see a big tent filled with people, dangerous animals, and a man shouting that could be a circus or it could be a pentecostal religious service. Or fuck maybe its a doctor doing a medical show, idk those could easily be happening again.
While this certainly is not the intent of China's current leadership (at least not in whole), make no mistake. China is VERY aware of their "Century of Humiliation" as they call it and are dead set on regaining their place as the overwhelming master of the global economy like they were for thousands of years. At least, Xi Jinping himself is set on this goal and doing his best to make the rest of the nation follow suit. Again, don't get me wrong, America's shitty decisions are the cause of their own opioid crisis, I'm just pointing out that Xi has probably privately laughed at the irony at least once or twice
I'm sure it has been used at times by uncool people, but dragon flag goes hard
China was forced to become addicted. The US did it to itself.
People forget that the US benefitted greatly from forcing opium on China.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-old-money-opium-trade-fortunes/
What's funny is you can argue that the US forced the US to become addicted to opioids as well.
the US did it to itself 2x: first with tobacco and then with opioids.
I will fight you on that.
The US was subjected to opioids the exact same way the Chinese were.
Powerful capitalists fucking throwing it at people to get them addicted.
I live in a pretty rural area, I don't know anyone who's addicted to any type of opioid
now whenever I visit the biggest city in my state, there's fentanyl addicts and probably also meth and crack addicts in very alleyway and under every bridge. It's not safe to be outside at night in that town. you will absolutely get stabbed, shot and/or robbed. It's never happened to me. But I had to stay hotel there once a few years ago and I heard the drug addicts outside screaming all night.
it felt like a zombie movie
The farmer’s daughter next to me hooks for fent and the one beside her cooks meth.
Does she have chronic pain or a debilitating mental illness and unable to afford medical care or is she simply a poor rural drug addict that enjoys living in squalor?
That's very much the first line of a joke...
Florida? Or maybe one of the states that borders northern Florida?
No, more north and west.
Could have just stopped there 🤷
The whole thing with meth and the like often being overrepresented in rural areas is that there's fewer people around to notice when you want to keep things secret.
This includes addiction, meth labs, secret pill mills and more.
Sure, cities are more convenient for distribution and the like, but if your main priority is secrecy, the boonies is where it's at.
When your next door neighbors are a mile away, you'd have the be very nosy to notice much of what they do.
Big rural conservative paranoia energy 🙄
My first time in New York, I accidentally got off the airport bus a couple of stops too early and walked through the infamous Jamaica, Queens neighborhood. In the middle of the night with all my luggage clearly labeling me a tourist.
I didn't get mugged or stabbed. Other than one guy politely hitting me up for a cigarette and then equally politely taking his leave, I was left alone entirely.
See, THAT I do believe.
doesn't this mean you approve of Trump's plan on tackling drug and opioid addiction?
He started executing big pharma CEOs?
Cute you think Trump has a plan.