Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Just in case you thought the climate movement and Penn State University couldn’t sink any lower.
Climate Change Could Make The Opioid Crisis Worse
March 24th, 2018
By Marlene Cimons
America’s opioid epidemic has dominated the news media in recent years, as drug overdose deaths have escalated, decimating lives and families. And while climate change may not be top of mind in discussions about how to effectively deal with this crisis, it’s a factor that shouldn’t be ignored. Global warming spawns extreme weather, which begets destruction and despair, a dangerous scenario for people looking for a way to numb their emotional pain.
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“It is reasonable to expect that damage and destruction cause emotional and mental health problems and lead to drug abuse, both new and existing users,” said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics at Pennsylvania State University. “There are long-lasting effects of such calamities, and they do not tend to diminish.”
His data, which examined the trends for all U.S. counties over four decades, show an increase in drug-related deaths associated with natural disasters, particularly in rural areas. “Given that, in the United States, climatic disasters dominate disaster declarations and some of them — precipitation, floods, droughts — may become more frequent and intense due to climate change, our results do indicate we may see increased deaths from opioids, all else unchanged,” he said.
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Read more: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/24/climate-change-make-opioid-crisis-worse/
See – the solution to the US opioid crisis is to build more wind turbines and solar installations, and to provide more funding for climate research.
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Personally as a reformed smoker now vaper I think we should have all stuck with nicotine now it’s no longer necessary to imbibe it via burnt vegetable matter but hey what would I know?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-banned-cigarette-ads-now-we-should-ban-car-ads-too-20180312-p4z3y8.html
Another reason OD deaths can spike:
Experienced dealers will cut the real drugs with cheap fillers to increase their profits. When the addicts switch dealers, because their regulars were busted or because some wide-eyed newcomer is claiming to offer better dope at a cheaper price, they can OD on a purer mix when they prep and inject the same amount as before, solely out of habit.
There could be something to this. Wasn’t the Pussy March on crack?
Nice to see the link between climate hysteria and mental illness…maybe this will be in the next revision to the DSM…
Climate Change will make everything everywhere worse!
http://climatechangepredictions.org/
Now they are saying it will even make red heads go extinct:
“vanishing redheads
March 24, 2018 by admin
Scientists believe the gene that causes red hair is an evolutionary response to cloudy skies and allows inhabitants to get as much Vitamin D as possible. But if predictions of rising temperatures and blazing sunshine across the British Isles turn out to be correct, flaming red heads could cease to exist within centuries.
Dr Alistair Moffat, managing director of Galashiels-based ScotlandsDNA, said: “We think red hair in Scotland, Ireland and in the North of England is adaption to the climate.”
The Mirror(UK), 6 Jul 2014”
Climate Change is even ruining auto racing (and beer sales).
“NASCAR Cup, Truck series races at Martinsville postponed due to snow”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/snow-forces-nascar-to-postpone-cup-race-at-martinsville/ar-BBKFrHt?ocid=spartanntp
“This marks the first Cup Series race to be postponed by snow since March 1993 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.”
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Well, opioids are trendy right now. When the next scary thing cooks up, I’m sure that will be made worse by climate change as well.
If aliens invaded the planet tomorrow, climate change will make it even worse.