All right, yeah, I just wanted to drop by, say hi.

Hope you all doing well.

And if you have things on your mind, I am more than thrilled above to hear all about them.

And, of course, I've read some interesting stuff today, which I'm happy to share with you.

But I turn this over if you, you know, you might be muted.

You might want to unmute, but I'm all ears if you have something you want to talk about.

Well, I found some interesting articles today that I wanted to talk about.

The opiate crisis, boy, did you know, did you know? I didn't know this at all. Did you know

that one out of ten Americans has a family member who died from the opioid, like died from

opioid poison? Isn't that wild? One out of ten Americans has a family member who's died

from opiates. And it was an article I was reading about a guy

who was told, as a doctor, he said, he was told, oh, you know, it's not that addictive.

Opioids aren't that addictive. And he's like, well, what about the Civil War veterans,

which is something I didn't know about. I mean, it's, it kind of makes sense in hindsight, of course, right?

It kind of makes sense in hindsight, but this is from Zero Hedge.

And he says, when the U.S. Civil War ended in 1865, both sides demobilized a very

horde of chronically ill and wounded.

Some soldiers had contracted tuberculosis or a lingering pneumonia in the days before antibiotics.

Uthids had suffered field amputations with handheld sores. But whether the question was chronic coughing

or terrible pain, the answer was morphine. The newly invented hypodermic needle allowed for fast-acting

injections. Veterans everywhere got hooked to the point where addiction was called the soldier's disease.

Soon, Morphing moved beyond the battlefield and was in use for everything from menstrual cramps to teething.

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