The heroin epidemic is a byproduct of the destruction of the working and middle ciasses!
“The heroin epidemic is a byproduct of the destruction of the working and middle classes!”
I think there is more going on than that. The heroin-related deaths we know of personally involved young adult males from upper-middle-class or even higher-income families. All of them struggled with the transition from high school to “independence” either at college or on relatively menial jobs. One common thread among them is that they were (we thought) excessively spoiled from an early age.
Yes, here in NJ our heroin epidemic is joined by a suicide epidemic. Some bastard tried to explain it away with nonsense like in the past hospitals didn’t report suicides; these are very public suicides (walking in front of trains, jumping off bridges, etc.) that could never have been concealed in the past, and this ass was just in denial or running interference for the overlords (I suspect the latter).