Opioids Are Responsible For 20% Of Millennial Deaths, "Crisis Will Impact US For Generations | Zero Hedge

She was the baby of the family, and spoiled. She was also quite beautiful. Tall, long, lean, great thick hair, big brown eyes, beautiful smile.

How do you say that beauty was a curse? Did beauty turn her into an addict? Was it being the baby of the family and spoiled?

There are other addicts in my family, namely my father. Along with mental health issues. When the two are combined, it is toxic. My father is very smart, was from a fine upstanding family in West Hartford, CT, upper middle class, officer corps (my grandfather was a Lt. Colonel in the Army Air Corps) and professional (my grandfather was an architect / builder and some of his buildings are still standing in CT and South Carolina). Not merely homes but beautiful structures, well designed and built to last.

My father left the east coast and moved to California. I know why, now. He could get away with things he would have been held accountable for if he had stayed in West Hartford. So you see a theme, here, developing, about personalities that are resistant to authority? That want only to live the life of a hedonist. The thing is, when you are tall, handsome, well spoken and from an upper-middle class family, like my father; or a natural beauty like my youngest sibling, people tend to make allowances. Many people are blinded by physical beauty. Or by pretty words.

Of course such beauty fades. The capacity for bullying people by over talking them has endured. He continues to bully staff into submission by merely talking. Is his use of language that good? Not really. He has the airs of his privileged upbringing and uses that to great benefit. At least for a while. Of course people see through his talk and big words, eventually.

I don't work in the medical field. I don't believe in psychology. As far as I can tell, modern psychology and psychiatry only make people weaker, and allow them to justify their bad behavior and poor choices, rather than holding people accountable for poor decision making.

My family, 100 years ago, was upper middle class. Now? Completely broken down. Divorce, a lack of religion in the household, low expectations. I look back and am bitter that my father threw away such a family legacy. For what? So he could have sex with random people in California, do drugs, and be a hippie? So that I could grow up in a ruined family?

So many factors to take into account, from welfare and LBJ to the free sex and party crowd in California. My father loved going the the Purple Haze club in SF in the late 60s. He had a wife (a second wife and three children, soon to be four). Why was he out at clubs at all hours? Away from home?

So of course, one answer is the genetic factor, where behaviors are inherited, genetically. The other is nurture. Where traits are encouraged by bad parenting or by society. In the end, the result was toxic for everyone in my family. Including me. No one wants to stand by and watch a family member party themselves to death. In the end, I was helpless to do anything but watch, from afar.

The reality is that my father married three times and admits to fathering two children from his first marriage, four from his second marriage, and one (finally a son) from his last marriage. My youngest sibling gave birth to three children, by three different fathers, one of whom landed in prison for murder. So who passed on their genes, poor thinking, and hedonism?

I have no children. And I am the responsible one in the family.

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