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ASSIGNMENT: Please create a discussion post pertaining to the questions below:

Why is drug use a fact of daily life for most Americans? What features of a normal life actively promote drug use?

Deaths of despair' are cutting life short for some white Americans https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/deaths-despair-cutting-life-short-white-americans

The opioid crisis is driving down U.S. life expectancy, new data shows https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the-opioid-crisis-is-driving-down-u-s-life-expectancy-new-data-shows

Opoid addiction is the biggest drug epidemic in US history. How we got here? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/opioid-addiction-biggest-drug-epidemic-u-s-history-howd-get

Drug use and overdose in American prisons. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/07/15/inside-the-nation-s-overdose-crisis-in-prisons-and-jails

Did the FDA ignite the opioid epidemic? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opioid-epidemic-did-the-fda-ignite-the-crisis-60-minutes/

Nearly 30 percent of patients prescribed opioids had no recorded pain diagnoses https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/nearly-30-percent-of-patients-prescribed-opioids-had-no-recorded-pain-diagnoses