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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Japan and S Korea are prosperous, first-world countries. They have social issues, but nothing like our levels of addiction and homelessness. Something in their societies make people less vulnerable to abandoning family, jobs, etc in pursuit of drugs to the point of self-destruction. I’d suggest it’s their conformist, more family-centered and authoritarian culture. There are simply more people in those cultures monitoring and intervening in the behaviour of family members than in far more individualistic North American society.
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True, but the amount of opiates they prescribe is also a drop in the bucket compared to North America. This is older data, and my understanding is the disparity is even greater now:
