The one thing I wish europeans would mimic from the USA.
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Of course better education and all that stuff becoming super expensive makes it much less desirable.
It's because they can't afford it..hip hip hooray!
Would like to see the data distribution by geography
I've done a lot of different drugs, and I'd rank the addictiveness of social media between flakka and crack. (I have not done heroine or fenta)
So yeah, good job USA. /s
I just saw a documentary of some sort talking about how movies and tv shows these days are specifically designed to be watchable with minimal viewer engagement because everyone is on their phone and the tv is a second screen. At least, I think that's what they were saying, I was barely paying attention because I was on my phone doom scrolling. I've done every drug in the book plus a bunch that I'd be seriously impressed if you had ever heard of them, and none of them touch the addictiveness of my stupid phone.
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Oy.
Yes, these self-reporting polls have been used for decade as one measurement device. They were fine when it was self-evident what "smoking", "drinking", and "drugs" meant.
Now the issues are far more complex and nuanced, and we now live in a world where the pharmacological knowledge of today's random 14yo outshines what I would have learned in 2nd year university in the 90s.
Kids drink cough syrup recreationally because "that's not drugs". We still live in world of denial where benzos are "drugs" but alcohol isn't because idk I guess the active molecules are suspended in liquid?
Young people have been propagandized and lied to, to the point many don't even know if they're "smoking" or not.