Cultural Suicide?
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/eaau1184
There is a developing drug epidemic in the United States. Jalal et al. analyzed nearly 600,000 unintentional drug overdoses over a 38-year period. Although the overall mortality rate closely followed an exponential growth curve, the pattern itself is a composite of several underlying subepidemics of different drugs. Geographic hotspots have developed over time, as well as drug-specific demographic differences.
Are we broken? Maybe this is just a bio-trigger controlling population growth like our little monkey wars?
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