Tbf, most of the reasoning behind the “help” you got for smoking was because it actively endangers those around you. Alcoholism, by an extremely large margin, affects those around you much less.

There are definitely pill mills in the poorer parts of town. And usually poor populations receive Medicaid, which will typically pay for the stuff. Just anecdotal evidence as a pharm tech in a rough part of town during college, but after a while we had to actually stop taking scripts for most pain meds (still got a ton of people using trazadone and stuff, though) because the pharmacist just didn’t think it was worth his license if the scripts were tied back to a pill mill.

Good call. I didn’t even think to specify household vs personal. My mistake. I’ll edit to fix.

Median income is $23k in Thailand. $31k in US. It definitely doesn’t make up the difference.

Edit: Used Personal income for US and Household for Thailand. It actually doesn’t bring the gap significantly closer.

But that’s not what this is. This is just an ad. Not a “since you like X, try Y”

Oh my gosh. Did he actually curse? Like…on the internet? Oh the humanity!?