<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><p class="gmail-m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4">Drug abuse has something to do with it. The rate of drug overdose deaths in 2016 was 3 times what it was in 1999 and it's growing fast, the 2016 rate was 21% higher than the 2015 rate.</font></p><p class="gmail-m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4">And the increase in the number of suicides clark</font></p><p class="gmail-m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p class="gmail-m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4">Yeah, but I'll bet both of them together don't amount to a hill of beans compared to people dying of diabetes and other woes cause by diet.</font></p><p class="gmail-m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p class="gmail-m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="4">bill w</font></p><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 11:38 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><p class="m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1"><font size="4">Drug abuse has something to do with it. The rate of drug overdose deaths in 2016 was 3 times what it was in 1999 and it's growing fast, the 2016 rate was 21% higher than the 2015 rate.</font></p>
<p class="m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1"><font size="4">And the increase in the number of suicides certainly has something to do with it too, since 1999 the rate has increased in 49 out of 50 states and is now the 10th leading cause of death, you're more than twice as likely to kill yourself than to get murdered. The 5 states with the highest suicide rates are in order, Montana, Alaska , Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah. The 5 states with the lowest suicide rates are in order, California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. Washington DC has a lower suicide rate than any state.</font></p>
<p class="m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1"><font size="4">It's interesting that the suicide rate in Wyoming is 2.5 times what it is in California. If I were still allowed to make political comments I'd say the democrats seem to be making people happier than the republicans, but I'm not so I won't. </font></p>
<p class="m_7543182443408859636gmail-p1"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></p></div></div></div>
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