JAMA study found a significant correlation between long term opioid use/ abuse and Trump voters

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/22/2016-trump-support-was-greatest-in-areas-with-highest-rates-of-painkiller-use-study-finds/?utm_term=.16dfb619a41e

Peer reviewed, prminant medical journal. So tell us Trumpkins, why do opioid addicts tend to support Trump? One thing is for certain, these are not our best people doing the clearest thinking.

[Anonymous]

Oh boy. I am from Ohio and didn’t need a study to tell you this.

[Anonymous]

Trump voters are dying out. Their vote for trump was akin to a death rattle. A last gasp before being relegated to the dustbin of history

[Anonymous]

I take this with a grain of salt. Opioid addicts aren’t known for being reliable voters.

It really doesn’t make sense.

[Anonymous]

The numbers don't at all suggest that opioid use was a causal factor in the 2016 presidential vote. Rather, "individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use," the report found. Those measures included income, disability coverage, insurance and unemployment rates.

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Gun crime is higher in cities and the majority of cities vote D.
So gun crimers vote democratic.

There is a higher crime rate period in cities, which reliably vote D.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The numbers don't at all suggest that opioid use was a causal factor in the 2016 presidential vote. Rather, "individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use," the report found. Those measures included income, disability coverage, insurance and unemployment rates.

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Gun crime is higher in cities and the majority of cities vote D.
So gun crimers vote democratic.

There is a higher crime rate period in cities, which reliably vote D.

OP here. And that is why the title accurately says there is a “correlation” between opioid use and Trump voters, and not a “causal link”. Please google correlation and causation if you are unclear about the difference. Or repeat 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

Was a study really needed? A simple look at a Trump rally would have suffficed.

[Anonymous]

The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

They’re probably profiting personally from the opioid crisis.

Of course they’re profiting personally from jailing children of asylum seekers, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

The opioid epidemic came to prominence under President Obama.

Who did what?

Under President Obama, a small army of executive branch “slow-walkers” served as pallbearers, knowingly or not, to the grim march of overdose deaths from commonly prescribed opioids that was already underway in years before he took office. As the body count climbed, the Brownlee-led US Attorney settlement with Purdue, as well as West Virginia’s 2004 settlement against the same company, ought to have prompted scores of decisions to reign in opioid prescribing. Instead, the opposite happened: prescribing numbers continued to grow throughout Obama’s first term, reaching a peak in 2012. Despite subsequent reductions, they remain the highest in the world.
During Obama’s time in office, licit opioid prescribing increased not only in number but also in potency. Most notable was expanded use of the powerful synthetic known as fentanyl, a drug approved only for opioid-tolerant cancer patients suffering from pain beyond the reach of traditional opioids, but one that drug makers marketed in a manner of ways, including in advertisements that pictured construction workers and others employed in similar, physically demanding jobs. Although a reduction in opioid supply was desperately needed, and close scrutiny of opioid manufacturers more than warranted, the Obama administration declined to do either.

https://medium.com/@kfrydl/obama-the-opioid-crisis-7910ce57d0b6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

The opioid epidemic came to prominence under President Obama.

Who did what?
[…]
https://medium.com/@kfrydl/obama-the-opioid-crisis-7910ce57d0b6

Is PP a trumpster?
1. Whataboutism - check
2. At least mildly off topic - check

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

The opioid epidemic came to prominence under President Obama.

Who did what?

Under President Obama, a small army of executive branch “slow-walkers” served as pallbearers, knowingly or not, to the grim march of overdose deaths from commonly prescribed opioids that was already underway in years before he took office. As the body count climbed, the Brownlee-led US Attorney settlement with Purdue, as well as West Virginia’s 2004 settlement against the same company, ought to have prompted scores of decisions to reign in opioid prescribing. Instead, the opposite happened: prescribing numbers continued to grow throughout Obama’s first term, reaching a peak in 2012. Despite subsequent reductions, they remain the highest in the world.
During Obama’s time in office, licit opioid prescribing increased not only in number but also in potency. Most notable was expanded use of the powerful synthetic known as fentanyl, a drug approved only for opioid-tolerant cancer patients suffering from pain beyond the reach of traditional opioids, but one that drug makers marketed in a manner of ways, including in advertisements that pictured construction workers and others employed in similar, physically demanding jobs. Although a reduction in opioid supply was desperately needed, and close scrutiny of opioid manufacturers more than warranted, the Obama administration declined to do either.

https://medium.com/@kfrydl/obama-the-opioid-crisis-7910ce57d0b6

Oh, ok. Blame it on Obama, and people will magically stop dying from overdoses. Problem solved!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

The opioid epidemic came to prominence under President Obama.

Who did what?
[…]
https://medium.com/@kfrydl/obama-the-opioid-crisis-7910ce57d0b6

Is PP a trumpster?
1. Whataboutism - check
2. At least mildly off topic - check

So the opioid crisis sprang to life under Trump?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

The opioid epidemic came to prominence under President Obama.

Who did what?
[…]
https://medium.com/@kfrydl/obama-the-opioid-crisis-7910ce57d0b6

Is PP a trumpster?
1. Whataboutism - check
2. At least mildly off topic - check

So the opioid crisis sprang to life under Trump?

What’s he doing to stop it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The opioid crisis is probably the biggest issue facing the country today, not illegals, not standing for the national anthem. What has this administration done about it? Nothing.

The opioid epidemic came to prominence under President Obama.

Who did what?
[…]
https://medium.com/@kfrydl/obama-the-opioid-crisis-7910ce57d0b6

Is PP a trumpster?
1. Whataboutism - check
2. At least mildly off topic - check

So the opioid crisis sprang to life under Trump?

What’s he doing to stop it?

Kelly Anne sure is doing a bang up job as opiod czar.