Rachel Wilson
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Like the marijuana, I think they use more.
But what about opioid addiction?
The opioid epidemic is pretty much both because I think it's kind of medically based.
A lot of people get something, you know, surgery or whatever.
And then they get hooked.
Yeah, and they get hooked on it and then they got to go looking for it elsewhere.
But women, we've never seen as high a rate of fetal alcohol syndrome in babies as we're seeing now.
And alcoholism is much worse for women.
Our bodies are smaller.
Our livers don't handle alcohol.
toxic amounts of alcohol, even as well as a man's bad for men.
It's even worse for women.
26% of American women are on at least one psychiatric prescription drug.
And they did something there in my book.
I covered the, a big study called the paradox of female happiness.
And this came out in 2008, I think it made huge waves where they did this giant survey of,
They had done one in the 70s and they were repeating it, you know, 40 something years later to see like, OK, we've had a lot of feminism.
Are women doing better?