The social structure implies a pressure on individuals. Some don't have a chance to live the American dream. Having line up 3-4 jobs and still not having enough money & time to manage family issues, shows >poverty<. Where poverty is, there are drugs as a "hide out" from reality.
Also, pressure to perform is laid up on the individuals. Some need drugs to be able to withstand.
And if course, the drugs industry. Oxycodone is being prescribed without hesitation. As a highly addictive opioid, there should be more control.
Prohibition in the USA has been going for how long? The more popular drugs were legalized and regulated but we are also learning these prohibited drugs may have historical, cultural, and more importantly medicinal factors. Which after elimination may leave a deficit the legal drugs cannot fill.
Imagine cavemen who wondered the forest eating whatever they could. They see berry bush and they eat them all. Mmmm sugar, wonderful addictive legal drug. Then they walk further and eat mushrooms which make you happy. Even cannabis is a standard, we have cannaboid receptors built into us.
Now withdraw access to what's built into us. Guess what, you end up seeking what makes you happy. You eat foods full of sugar to make you happy but you kind of overdo it. Your nation is now 80% overweight and 30% obese. Which comes with lots of consequences.
>Furthermore, the European youth, especially in Italy, are more likely to live at home for many more years. That probably limits illegal drug use.
I don't think so, in the sense that while technically living at home, it is not like in Italy young people are not usually completely free to do whatever they want, in theory I would hypothetically link a bigger drug consumption to unemployment and poverty, but given the much higher unemployment rate (and high percentage of people living near or under the poverty line) in Italy when compared to the US, this seems a false link.
I believe there is something more "cultural" about this, and somehow it is changing (for the worse) in latest years, besides drugs even excessive drinking, that appears to be common in the US, used to be rare here in Italy, now it has necome more common.
The cultural aspect definitely shapes both the meaning of living at home in Italy vs US and why people in the US tend to look for these psychedelic escapes more than others.
As a US alien I noticed that drug use is way more normalized and less scary than where I was. Everyone knows someone who does/did hard drugs or someone who’s a functioning alcoholic. That was not the case for me at all before coming to the us.
A 15yo that smokes weed is a given in the US. “Well yeah of course that happens”. It’s like when a kid says “well everyone is doing it” but at a society level.
I also think Americans are more lonely and the parental figures are usually seen more negatively than in countries like Italy where mama is sacred and the grandma is god.
In the US you can be at a party with people you barely know and they’ll be talking shit about their parents nonchalantly and you’ll have people agreeing like “FACTS”.
Even in comedy, how many comedians use their bad parents to make people relate to them and laugh?
That cultural difference makes living at home in Italy much different than living at home in the US. You don’t want to disappoint that Italian mama, but in the US is whatever, parents suck and I’ll do what I want.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 28.7 ms ] threadAlso, pressure to perform is laid up on the individuals. Some need drugs to be able to withstand.
And if course, the drugs industry. Oxycodone is being prescribed without hesitation. As a highly addictive opioid, there should be more control.
Imagine cavemen who wondered the forest eating whatever they could. They see berry bush and they eat them all. Mmmm sugar, wonderful addictive legal drug. Then they walk further and eat mushrooms which make you happy. Even cannabis is a standard, we have cannaboid receptors built into us.
Now withdraw access to what's built into us. Guess what, you end up seeking what makes you happy. You eat foods full of sugar to make you happy but you kind of overdo it. Your nation is now 80% overweight and 30% obese. Which comes with lots of consequences.
I don't think so, in the sense that while technically living at home, it is not like in Italy young people are not usually completely free to do whatever they want, in theory I would hypothetically link a bigger drug consumption to unemployment and poverty, but given the much higher unemployment rate (and high percentage of people living near or under the poverty line) in Italy when compared to the US, this seems a false link.
I believe there is something more "cultural" about this, and somehow it is changing (for the worse) in latest years, besides drugs even excessive drinking, that appears to be common in the US, used to be rare here in Italy, now it has necome more common.
As a US alien I noticed that drug use is way more normalized and less scary than where I was. Everyone knows someone who does/did hard drugs or someone who’s a functioning alcoholic. That was not the case for me at all before coming to the us.
A 15yo that smokes weed is a given in the US. “Well yeah of course that happens”. It’s like when a kid says “well everyone is doing it” but at a society level.
I also think Americans are more lonely and the parental figures are usually seen more negatively than in countries like Italy where mama is sacred and the grandma is god. In the US you can be at a party with people you barely know and they’ll be talking shit about their parents nonchalantly and you’ll have people agreeing like “FACTS”.
Even in comedy, how many comedians use their bad parents to make people relate to them and laugh?
That cultural difference makes living at home in Italy much different than living at home in the US. You don’t want to disappoint that Italian mama, but in the US is whatever, parents suck and I’ll do what I want.