Capitalism Hits Home: Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs - Life Is Painful In Today's USA (2 of 2)

[S07 E04] Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs - Life Is Painful In Today's USA (Part 2 of 2)
Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs are all heavily marketed. Opioid medications like Oxycontin induce addiction, guns facilitate suicide, and pills numb justified anxiety and depression. Why are they now epidemics?
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[@piku5637]

As a Canadian I wish we had a show like yours for Canada.

[@earlviney5212]

You do have a great show it's called connor McDavid.

[@piku5637]

I mean a political left wing show like this, not a hockey player lol. Not very helpful.

[@Anarcho-Communist895]

Canada doesn't need it as much as the US. But yea this show is pretty amazing.

[@sizzla123]

Thanks. From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. ~Friedrich Engels

[@robwashers]

"Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it. " Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)

[@peterstafford4426]

Is there a successful communist country? You'd think that after 200 years, there would be at least one.

[@shnibby12]

Yea ask Fredrick Engels parents about greed, they were experts in the field 😂

[@Anarcho-Communist895]

People aren't naturally selfish and greedy. Our brains are wired to be empathetic and kind but most humans are damaged due to bad parenting and a toxic culture.

[@leftykeys6944]

I love listening to you, Dr. Fraad. Great perspective.

[@KurtBossy]

Suicide is record breaking levels Its mostly the cause of a missing public domain that is poisoned by private ownership

[@SelectorSam]

Disagree. Suicide is from mental illness. There are lots of causes of mental illness.

[@shnibby12]

You have no evidence of this

[@KurtBossy]

@@shnibby12 it's general logic, you just have to be smart to see this. You obviously have this problem of being dumb

[@YTStopCensoringFreedomOfspeech]

@@shnibby12 "The total age-adjusted suicide rate increased from 10.7 deaths per 100,000 standard population in 2001 to a recent peak of 14.2 in 2018, and then declined to 13.5 in 2020. In 2021, the rate increased 4% to 14.1, the largest 1-year increase during the period (Figure 1)."

[@shnibby12]

@reformedex-drugtrafficker8972 That's great and all, but that isn't evidence that a missing public domain is why suicide rates are record breaking

[@victorialeif9266]

Love the dark shades! I think it could be a metaphor for the times in which we are living.

[@robwashers]

she had an eye operation

[@TennesseeJed]

This is the second one after her surgery, but I dig Dark Harriet

[@Marxist2]

Yes capitalism is running amok & we must stop it; by organizing & starting a movement based on workers rights.

[@Marxist2]

I certainly agree with everything you talked about Dr. Fradd & thank you for bringing these issues into focus, now, all you people/workers out there, let's unite & start a Workers movement. I'm ready!

[@robwashers]

The most cost effective way today to 'enjoy' yourself is to play a subscription based computer game - $20 -$30 per month progress in your chosen game until you become sick of it, then find a new one.....rinse and repeat 10 years later you have 'saved' on your entertainment enough to perhaps afford a holiday Doesn't everything cost money now in a way that never happened when I was very young (dob 1977). Any social club or activity requires a subscription or substantial start up cost. Team sports; need a costume / protective gear / appropriate foot ware plus the monthly fees and paying the referee fees each game / travel expense. Harriett mentions Bowling - we use to have a league and it cost £1 per game - not so now - pay the market cost.... You want fun and social connection ? Well that has a market value now so pay up. Average wage earners cannot afford a social life anymore

[@mountainhobbit1971]

thank you for this, I really enjoy the pace at which you talk...I can absorb what you are saying, as you are saying it. Best of luck in the healing of your eyes after your surgery.

[@jossiesh7649]

Thank you, Dr Fraad, for your work. Get well soon

[@AntonStampfl]

I just like to say wow. This was your best video/podcast yet. Really well put together and I think very powerful.

[@TennesseeJed]

Dark Harriet again, heck yeah!

[@MMiel-mv2pt]

This is one of my favorite series on KZbin 👍❤️

[@chioma3100]

Black families --American Descendants of chattel Slavery-- always have had to have multiple income workers, not just the wife when married, but their children as well. And they had to work multiple lower paying jobs in mass numbers even when they had degrees. So welcome to the club.

[@theboyisnotright6312]

That's not a race thing. That's being poor. I'm white and I have worked since 6-7 years old. Please realize that the people in charge want to splinter the workers. Racism, sexism, you name it the media (owned by the rich) propagandists are right there, driving a wedge into the working class. 😊

[@user-px4dx7yi3x]

Your content is always so inclusive and diverse.

[@scottjacobson4765]

AWESOME PERSPECTIVES! 🎉 FABULOUS ANCEDOTES! 😊 THANK YOU! EVRRYTIME! ❤ HOPE YOUR EYES HEAL WITH FREAKY FAST RESOLVE! ❤😊

[@jessegreywolf]

thank you for this commentary Dr Fraad

[@nicka731]

“ Who cares? I never get lonesome Cause I treasure my own company” - Mac Davis

[@piku5637]

Need to fight for a 4 day 20 hour work week, unironically.

[@bernardheathaway9146]

Thanks doc!!

[@andyshelly3473]

as a short low status man in america i have never had any luck with women here . im 53 and luckily for me i went to the Philippines in the last 2 years to meet the woman that ive been talking with for over 3 years now . she is very traditional and actually appreciates me . now we will soon be getting married and at some point will probably retire back in the Philippines . in recent years ive been researching and cumming to understand that there,s a lot wrong with our country to put it politely .

[@cev12]

lol, there is a lot wrong with our country, and you exemplify most of it. Maybe reflect on your treatment and expectations of women? ps. she's using you for citizenship.

[@3g0st]

SSRI, SNRI and AntiPsychotic efficacy rate - often times making conditions *worse* - has been hidden by pharma companies, and propaganda enabled by ill regulated markets, intermingling money in government, so corrupt. The deaths and lives ruined - largely uncounted, uncalled for. Thank you for discussing these matters frankly. I wanted to comment to add that OxyContin is but one example. many other conditions treatment has turned into austere marketing tactics to coerce people into working instead of providing real rehabilitation and resources. Yet, the boasting continues. And I ask, what is there left to boast about? The new "conformity" now expects to be strapped with some kind of stimulant or cocktail in order to boost "efficiency". It's not a way to live. It's hollow. The corporations profit off of our trauma and ignorance.

[@Ace1000ks19751982]

These days, it isn't uncommon to have two people the household working 3 to 5 part time jobs each. Most of these part time jobs are Gig jobs, so they are low pay, and there are no worker protections. Compare this to 52 years ago when one income was enough pay for a middle class lifestyle. A man could support his family with one income, have a 3 bedroom + 2 bath home, 2 cars, and a white picket fence. If you want that today, you need to make about $150,000+/year or more. That kind of lifestyle isn't possible for most people today.

[@williamlathan6932]

Great work! Plenty to consider and lots of truth.

[@rijd2304]

There's a mindfulness book called 30 Days to Overcome Suicidal Thoughts by Harper Daniels that can offer a little relief if anyone needs it.

[@claudenobles779]

the insights are on point. And keep the shades regardless😎

[@irinabass1655]

I spent a year in Canada as a Ukrainian refugee sweating my guts on for jobs just to make my ends meet, so as my teenage kids. Low paid jobs in retail. You're not allowed to sit anywhere, not in any shops, fast food or supermarkets. It is a common practice

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

Thank you for you for all the work you do Dr.

[@nutbagus]

Renew Homesteading For all . 5-10 acres per human would not hurt the situation we find ourselves in, garden small farm is a Good Life better than suburbs & city's . just saying stay busy in your own place + 3 day work weeks with full pay & Benefit's economy will not hurt no one.

[@peggyharris3815]

Your shades look great!

[@nicholasrecord6502]

Thomas Szasz, R.D. Laing, Franco Basaglia, and other psychiatrists fought against psychiatry throughout their careers. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taught me that democrats started taking big pharma lobbyist money in huge numbers as part of the Obamacare deal passing. I believe in Mitbestimmung. And worker unions for corporations, not small businesses. But, good democracy isn’t always consensus. The majority can be in the wrong and often are. If people keep that in mind, socialism has a chance, if they don’t, socialism is bad. As for taxes, it needs to be for profit, not revenue. I learned that from Sam Seder on the PDB podcast.

[@Spock_Rogers]

Thank you so much, Dr. Fraad! 🌹 I really like your voice (even though you're a yankee). In my own little world, I have been eating healthier, trying to be active, and I have stopped watching television. I am reconnecting with many people in my community and I am feeling better about things. Sometimes, I have gone to visit people just to watch them watch TV. I call it the idiot box. I miss the days when more people read books.

[@6213explorer1]

Good for you! Just reading your comment made me feel better.

[@theotherway1639]

On a side note, if anyone needs it the book 30 Days to Overcome Suicidal Thoughts by Harper Daniels might offer some help.

[@felicetanka]

Here in the usa even medicine is still a business, making us sick.

[@piku5637]

UPS package handlers here in Canada still aren’t paid a living wage, yet were unionized. Lmao💀.

[@cev12]

Fraad seems to be promulgating some weird, outdated stereotypes and tropes week after week... The idea that poor men aren't finding wives because they're poor, and then not mentioning that the reverse is also true today: it all seems to be a matter of status now. I think Harriet Fraad should set up a fake, young female dating app profile (just do it ethically), so she can actually understand how things are today.

[@theboyisnotright6312]

If your not angry, your not paying attention 🤬

[@richardthut7071]

You popped into your own bed with union's gimme gimme that drove the cost up on every thing. So now everyone else puts their there price like a cat after it's tail round and round you go.So what do we do lern to live with bigger numbers well we get any further ahead a?

[@OPTHolisticServices]

💗🍃

[@josiahsuarez]

Nice shades 😎

[@robwashers]

she had an eye operation

[@tomtuttle919]

Greed.

[@MrRhinosilver]

I thank god I make enough to keep my wife at home.

[@jayclarke6671]

You mean to keep her from running off? I've never been married and moved permanently to Spain decades ago because I saw the writing on the wall!

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

Great joke bro. How do you come up with your material?

[@jayclarke6671]

@@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052 that's usually what they do if the bread stops coming in

[@walkerwilson9045]

Despite the economic downturn,I'm so happy☺️. I have been earning $ 60,000 returns from my $10,000 investment every 14days.

[@chrisevans7284]

This must be an investment with Mrs Linda Raschke, She helped me recover what I lost trying to trade myself

[@mikey_gc8]

For the unholy algorithm

[@westmassdave7354]

We have to stop paying taxes

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

How the fuck would that solve anything?

[@westmassdave7354]

Ud have more money in your pocket. What u actually think your comment matters

[@westmassdave7354]

No one is coming to save u. Sorry. Learn to grow food. Stop paying taxes

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

@@westmassdave7354 Your "solution" is so ignorant it boggles the mind.

[@anopinionatedlaymanappears9052]

@@westmassdave7354 You would have more money in your pocket if your cheapskate employer paid you more FFS!

[@theboyisnotright6312]

Oh poor women! What a load of BS. I was agreeing with you, then of course pull out the misandry 😢

[@tanujSE]

While the same difficulty will remain with marxist state too for all the population going towards physical labour to end anti thesis mental and physical labour

[@Taylordessalines]

Barbie? LOL

[@3g0st]

typo around 19:00 ? said she's transitioning but accidentally mentioned the maleness. awkward lol. Not sure that their transness even needs to be mentioned tbh, or maybe it should have been reframed to the misery of being trans rather than "that she still was a man somehow" which is what that misslip may read as to bigots in addition - if this is the shooter i think that is being referenced - that was debunked; the "they had pronouns" was an internet operation trying to "pin" trans folks. I'm sorry but I don't have the literature on hand, maybe someone else can help me out. be careful...

[@chuckleaf8027]

I can't believe people watch 2 minutes of this commie garbage, let alone 19???

[@SinclairPoppins]

Is it ok to like Capitalism?

[@vivalaleta]

It's ignorant so forgivable, unless you're a wealthy sociopath.

[@SinclairPoppins]

@@vivalaleta But socialism doesn’t work. It’s way worse. We need capitalism with social welfare, and accept that that’s gonna need some inequality.

[@helloocentral]

yeah I remember when I was 11 and they taught me that in history class too, I've just done some reading since then apparently unlike you lol

[@vivalaleta]

@@SinclairPoppins Sorry but we've been trying to do it your way for ages and things have gotten worse and worse. Furthermore socialism isn't a political system. It's virtually human kindness.

[@SinclairPoppins]

@@helloocentral You’ve been reading propaganda lol

[@MrRhinosilver]

The average ceo made 30 times more than the average worker and know it’s 300 times more this lady is off her meds. Someone come get ur aunt.

[@maxsmart9116]

🥱🥱🥱

[@adlerherman9388]

And youtube please censure Me, o do think you are running against histoire