Trump election support highest in areas with highest rates of opioid drug use

[Joe Capitalist]

Democrat supporters are clustered where muder and rape is most prevalent

Nice try. Without proof, you're just verbally masturbating.

 

[tinfoil]

Nice try. Without proof, you're just verbally masturbating.

Dumbass, I purposefully posted a spurious correlation to make a point. Of course there is no causation there. That was the point.

 

[cawacko]

sounds like a plan!

We had a good run going in NYC in 1990 when y'all murder 3K. Selfish Guliani put an end to it.

 

[cawacko]

Nice try. Without proof, you're just verbally masturbating.

For sh*ts and giggles which cities with high murder rates have lots of republicans living in them?

 

[katzgar]

For sh*ts and giggles which cities with high murder rates have lots of republicans living in them?

There is plenty of research you can find on how opioids and alcohol abuse are what trumps boomers are into there isn't any question here

 

[Jarod]

Earlier research found president over-performed in areas with high drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates

Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election was greatest in the counties with the highest rates of chronic prescription opioid use, according to a new study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.

The study found that Mr Trump received about 39 per cent of the 2016 vote in the 638 counties with the lowest rates of long-term (90-day supply or more) Medicare opioid prescriptions, but about 60 per cent of the vote in the 693 counties with the highest rates of long-term opioid use.

All told, on a scale from zero to 100, where zero indicates no correlation and 100 indicates perfect correlation, the relationship between chronic opioid use and the 2016 presidential vote scored a 42.

Maps from the paper illustrating the raw rates of long-term opioid use and the 2016 Trump vote share at the county level illustrate some of the correlation. Certain areas of the country, including parts of the mountain West and a wide swath of Appalachia, stand out on both maps. There are some areas of discordance, however, including much of the northern plains (low opioid rates, high Trump support) and deep South (high opioid rates, low Trump support).

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.

Still, correcting for those factors didn't remove the relationship between the Trump vote and opioid use entirely. "Adjusting for county-level socioeconomic measures in linear regression models explained approximately two-thirds of the association of opioid rates and presidential voting rates," the authors write. That last third remains something of a mystery.

These findings dovetail with some other research that's come out since the election. A December 2016 study found, for instance, that "Trump over-performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-republican-prescription-study-a8413081.html

Morons, psychopaths, racists, traitors, and drug addicts.

Explains a lot.

It often requires drugs to convince yourself to except something that is untrue.

 

[cawacko]

It often requires drugs to convince yourself to except something that is untrue.

You speaking from experience as a lawyer?

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello blackascoal,

Earlier research found president over-performed in areas with high drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates

Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election was greatest in the counties with the highest rates of chronic prescription opioid use, according to a new study published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.

The study found that Mr Trump received about 39 per cent of the 2016 vote in the 638 counties with the lowest rates of long-term (90-day supply or more) Medicare opioid prescriptions, but about 60 per cent of the vote in the 693 counties with the highest rates of long-term opioid use.

All told, on a scale from zero to 100, where zero indicates no correlation and 100 indicates perfect correlation, the relationship between chronic opioid use and the 2016 presidential vote scored a 42.

Maps from the paper illustrating the raw rates of long-term opioid use and the 2016 Trump vote share at the county level illustrate some of the correlation. Certain areas of the country, including parts of the mountain West and a wide swath of Appalachia, stand out on both maps. There are some areas of discordance, however, including much of the northern plains (low opioid rates, high Trump support) and deep South (high opioid rates, low Trump support).

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.

Still, correcting for those factors didn't remove the relationship between the Trump vote and opioid use entirely. "Adjusting for county-level socioeconomic measures in linear regression models explained approximately two-thirds of the association of opioid rates and presidential voting rates," the authors write. That last third remains something of a mystery.

These findings dovetail with some other research that's come out since the election. A December 2016 study found, for instance, that "Trump over-performed the most in counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...s-republican-prescription-study-a8413081.html

Morons, psychopaths, racists, traitors, and drug addicts.

Explains a lot.

I am *SO* not surprised.

Ya know, the Navy has a saying. 'Loose lips sink ships.'

What that means is misinformation can destroy effective human networking and coordination. Order can break down. People can act inappropriately for the whole, based on incorrect information.

The American society has no such saying, no such policy. So we suffer the internal divide and associated dysfunction. And that costs us dearly.

We have a lot of people who don't get the big picture, don't see where they fit in, can't find what they feel is 'their place' in society. (A lot of that simply because capitalism destroys nearly as many opportunities as it creates, and moves on, leaving regions with no opportunity - it just doesn't care.) Sadly, that creates opportunity for another kind of capitalism - the kind that earns a profit from supplying bewildered people with some kind of temporary escape mechanism.

It's one of the reasons expanding capitalism requires an expanding government to strongly regulate it.

Because capitalism is just as proficient at making money off despair as it is at creating good things.

 

[Ralph]

meth is a prescription drug? the choice of the white trash flyover country honkeys

honkey see honkey do

More compassion from the compassionate party? Look to Mexifornia for YOUR choice of dope de jour...if you can walk through the shit on the sidewalk. As documented by the actual election results......it was THE BLUE WALL STATES and former democrat voters that elected the current POTUS. Why? The Clinton Machine basically called them WHITE TRASH "deplorables".

(fishing is fun)...….these people are stupid. 223 WWG1WGA