Killing Americans With Globalism

While this study tells us what we already suspected, there are a few questions remaining.

...A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined 112 counties near automobile plants, primarily in the industrial Midwest and South, from 1999 to 2016. A quarter of the counties were near a plant that closed. Researchers compared overdose deaths before and after plant closures.

Opioid overdose deaths in counties where automobile plants had closed were 85 percent higher than in counties where they hadn’t.

The study’s “findings highlight the potential importance of eroding economic opportunity as a factor in the U.S. opioid overdose crisis,” the authors conclude. “From 1999 to 2016, automotive assembly plant closures were associated with increases in opioid overdose mortality.”

The study found non-Hispanic white men suffered the largest increase in overdose deaths....

We've known, largely by instinct, that lack of a future leads to serious social problems.  Opioids are the new alcohol, of course.  So there's that.

Another interesting study would look at marriage and childbirth rates across the same counties.  The "hunch" is that marriages are down, but childbirths are not--meaning illegitimacy is increasing.

We paid a lot for cheap teevees and cars, no?

Thank God for Trump!!