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datsci_est_2015 • yesterday at 6:18 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Nope, but alcohol consumption was a lot higher, as well as domestic violence. And race-based violence. And opiate production hadn’t industrialized yet.

Given the public policy of the 50s, if the Sacklers had been around, I would imagine a much higher death toll and much more damage to the public welfare than the opiate epidemic of the 2000s.

Probably would’ve put the Opium Wars to shame.