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Re: Drugs and Alcohol - Dirty Little Secrets

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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
I'm not sure why population density is a relevant metric here. If I'm asked to address the problem of drug overdoses and I have limited resources, I'm going to try to help the largest number of people I can -- and it seems to me that the largest number of people affected by this problem are less affluent; it doesn't really matter where they live.
So you are going to address their poverty or their lack of hope (which as a drug alcohol can magnify)?
Cause that's the proposed cause of the socio-economic aspect of drug overdoses.

Or

Are you planning to address the consequence of drug use?

Interestingly enough - my original post stated someone asked me to address the lack of hope issue via creating an FRC team and that was for local to me affluent students. An undeniable fact.

So the point I am trying to make (not be ignored here) is that you in an FRC team are hypothetically already doing something about a contributing cause of the problem by giving those students access to education - both book and vocational and a positive environment which creates hope. Not to mention financial assistance in the form of the scholarships available through FIRST participation.

So if I were to follow your line here - you would only profile those from the at risk for the end result of drug use - not for the at risk for lack of hope (seeing the positive aspects of your future oddly kind of favors a median income - as seen by studies of what incomes bring the most happiness and notice the overlap of the average engineering salaries and the most happy salaries?)

Again statistics can be very dangerous.
We should statistically analyze how many people die from the improper application of statistics daily.
Hopefully there's some inspiration there (because that might lead someone to think there is some value in the effort).

BTW - population density matters because socio-economically if you cram a lot of people (and their problems and consequential lack of hope) into a smaller and smaller place it's very likely to be a contagious problem. While, on the other hand, if you separate the social human animal further and further apart you can run into the isolation side effects that can lead to sociological issues to the individual. So it really does matter if you are living on top of each other in some projects rather than in houses with a little separation.

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