by Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths:

One of the great social science paradoxes of the last decade is that young adults are objectively doing better than they ever have – but subjectively are less happy.

What I mean is this: Teenagers are less likely to get pregnant later than they were a generation ago. They drink less. They smoke less. Until about 2020, they were using far fewer drugs and committing less crime, and while drug use and crime has risen since then, it remains well below the previous peaks. The overdose crisis is awful, but it is driven mainly by fentanyl’s dangers, not a huge increase in opioid use overall.