Alcohol, drug addiction increasing among Baby Boomers

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Do the over the hills pop the most pills.

Well new reports suggest that the aging of the baby boomer generation is -- the huge increases in drug addicted adults over fifty.

Apparently those who grew -- in the drug friendly sixties and seventies god bless and have little hesitation about popping pills to deal with the physical and emotional stresses of aging.

As an actress -- -- five million older adults who need treatment by forty to forty.

And I'll be there with my patented lower body was.

But that -- death -- but farm.

So let's discuss in.

Yes -- -- body if you're old yes.

Haven't you are in the right to be addicted to whatever the hell you want.

Yet -- considered what do you have left in life you know -- you got left is it drugs in your driving.

That and -- you're young and fit but doesn't make sense and older people are popping pain pills and you get older things start to hurt her.

I think what the issue though is that the -- to burn victims are not that there -- using it when it's necessary it's so.

I -- to me I'm wondering if it's that they don't realize that they're vulnerable to this because they are like the target population and this is gonna sound really discussing but in recent years.

There's been an increase in sexually transmitted diseases asset retirement communities and nursing homes now -- these people aren't educated about safe sex either so I don't like my vacation.

Right and we'll probably they're all taken by our currency -- and all that stuff and suddenly they're doing things that they were not intended to do not quite frankly.

Now he's saying those people yeah I hair now I.

Yeah I convicted the only -- you have an England I believe his car seat a mall yes which I was not -- really cool that I found out it's -- -- a minute vignettes it's easily ask whatever and older people are really addicted to.

Not -- -- -- -- -- You take -- if you take any topic any topic these days.

It's always going to be attached to the idea of aging because we are old so it's like if you talk about hills follow the -- -- are addicted or the agent now bodybuilding.

-- -- -- Hang gliding and that's because everybody writing about this stuff is -- -- eighteen so this is the -- is what I say you know what when you get older and you -- you know watching TV you're watching Stevie -- TV land.

Pain pills make it better so be it's I enjoy it it's.

It's kind of true what they -- rehab why do we go to rehab so we won't die soon yet -- people I mean my little guy again that.

But I have been as a cultural critic I what do you think -- -- about -- society.

All beyond me a lot about society.

Especially has had been working on my document documentary think a lot of that society and a clean room and get.

Yeah I often know Jack that is there's -- time they -- it's desperately use -- -- understand the Kobe Durbin always question I don't know -- -- a lot.

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