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I was listening to Bill Marr last week on his show and real time on HBO.

Oh yeah.

And he's talking about a statistic, it was in relationship to the death of Whitney Houston

and there was this alarming statistic, I don't think I talked about it on the show, that

he was interviewing that Dr. Drew from CNN, you know, the guy who does it.

Dr. Drew Penske.

Yeah, he's quite a guy, he's very knowledgeable.

And they were talking about the statistic, which is really alarming to me.

They said that the United States comprises 5% of the world's population and yet we consume

56% of the pain pills, of all of the pills that are produced, you know, for taking care

of pain, all of the oxygons, all of the, not just those, but all of them.

And I was thinking, I wonder what is it about living in, you know, the most, with the

wealthiest and supposedly the best country in the world, the country where democracy is

supposed to be flourishing, where the country where we have so many things available for us

and certainly one of the highest standards of living in the world, what is so painful

about, you know, that we have to consume 56% that's almost two thirds of the pain pills

that are produced in the world, what's so painful about living?

And we have so much, maybe it is that we just have so much and because when I look at

what's happening so often in our country with, you know, especially with the increase

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