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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maui" data-source="post: 2666338" data-attributes="member: 45037">This is an odd post. Illicit drug use in teens is lower than it was 40 years ago. The lowest point was around 1992. There are fewer auto deaths and abortions are at their lowest level in 40 years.I am from Appalachia. Very religious and quite conservative. Drug abuse is hitting the area hard. Teen pregnancy and abortion strikes harder there too. Sectarianism has not provided the area with better outcomes. Given your age society was much, much harsher when you were a kid and teen. There was more violent crime and the homicide rate was higher too. Overall drug use and violent crime has decreased through both Democratic and Republican administrations.</blockquote>