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Looks like a city that openly promotes and worships hard-core drug use and getting drunk isn't working out very well.
Not only are drug addicts dropping like flies in Denver with a whopping 209 overdose deaths in one year but 26% of the adult residents admit to being addicts compared to 17% in Las Vegas and 10% in Utah County.
Addicts from all over the country have rushed into the city causing addicts to drop like flies with a whopping 209 deaths from drug overdoses and a violent crime rate that is rising fast as addicts turn to desperate measures to feed their addiction.
When it comes to social indicators, Denver makes Las Vegas look good in comparison.
Much higher rates of STD's, teenage pregnancy, alcoholics then Las Vegas could ever imagine.
Promoting itself world-wide as a sinful Marijuana, Mushrooms and hard-liqour destination seems to have massive social consequences.
I was just in Denver and the first thing I noticed was the very severe coughing fits many of the residents have in public have from years and years of sitting at home everyday smoking weed.
Such a sad state affairs compared to when I was growing up there when we had Bill Owens and Republican legislature who promoted morality and clean culture.
Now, there is Flower and birth-day card internet businessman Jared Polis and his ultra-liberal, immoral agenda following bar-baron John Hickenlooper who's bars caused many DUI's and caused many to become alcoholics.
Welll maybe someone needs to ask the ATF, or the DEA what they are planning to do to deal with these problems, alcohol is considered a drug, so its within the DEAs jurisdiction, the ATF has some responsibility as well here.
Welll maybe someone needs to ask the ATF, or the DEA what they are planning to do to deal with these problems, alcohol is considered a drug, so its within the DEAs jurisdiction, the ATF has some responsibility as well here.
Alcohol use certainly is in addiction. I should clarified that the 26% of adult Denverites confess to being alcoholics, compared to 17% in Clark Counties Las Vegas and 10% in Utah County.
I wonder what percentage of Denver adults are alcoholics and illicit drug addicts.
26% are alcohol addicts and then there is a huge percentage that are meth, cocaine and heroin addicts in Denver per the article above.
….that I can't afford to live there anymore, and it really upsets me.
I have not lived in Denver except for a short time(2010-2011) period since 2001.
I am from there other than that I would never visit. A state like Colorado that wants to profit of vices like dangerous, illicit drugs and alcoholism is not a state that I would want to reside in.
Walking down streets smelling of marijuana with lots of empty liquor cans and bottles has zero appeal.
I also think the rampant drug-use and alcoholism has a negative effect on the friendliness of the residents.
It seems as though profiting of things of questionable morality has been far worse for Denver than for Las Vegas.
If I had a fortune, I certainly wouldn't want to live in a city that's claim to fame is illicit drugs illegal at the federal level, alcohol and cold weather a majority of the year.
I do think much of Denver's issues are made worse by that cold weather that starts in October and goes into May. They have about 20 days of very mild downslope winds in the winter.
Ive never been to Denver, but I would bet they cracked down on opioid prescription drugs/ pill mills/ drug dealing doctors etc... there recently...Am I right?
I am a bit amused you picked Utah County. That's likely one of the strongest LDS counties in the state, so that definitely skews alcohol statistics moreso perhaps than some other conservative areas that aren't as anti alcohol.
As a state, though, not everything in Utah is rosy on the drug front.
"Between 2005 and 2014, nearly 26 percent of pregnancy-associated deaths were drug-induced, making opioid abuse the leading cause of death in new Utah moms and pregnant women, according to a University of Utah Health study published this month."
There are also some interesting studies showing that higher altitudes in places like Colorado, Utah and Nevada can lead to higher rates of depression. This can lead to problems like drug use and suicide.
I'm not trying to say all this to dis Utah. Just trying to prove a point. It's easy to cherry pick stats to try and paint a picture according to what you are arguing, but it's usually not the whole story of how a state/city/area came to be like they are now.
Maybe it’s the weather. People are staying indoors, drinking more and having plenty sex.
Hopefully most of those sexual episodes are between consenting adults.
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