What’s it like to be Sugar Daddy Warbucks? Likely white, middle-age, a Silicon Valley tech guru or some New York business tycoon with money to burn, or so says SeekingArrangement.com, which facilitates partnerships between cash-strapped coeds and wealthy benefactors. In fact, users of the site averaged a net worth of $5.2 million in 2015.
One more thing in common: Most sugar daddies are feeling a “Bern”-ing sensation, according to a survey of SeekingArrangement.com users.
Almost a third of sugar daddies who reported donating to a presidential campaign this year backed Bernie Sanders.
Despite
being card-carrying members of the 1 percent that Sanders so often
rails against, 345 sugar daddies reported donating to the Vermont
senator, with Donald Trump (291) and Hillary Clinton (174) as the next
biggest recipients. “A lot of people see Bernie supporters as ‘Bernie
Bros,’ which is the opposite of what you might think of as a sugar
daddy,” says Brook Ulrick, a spokesperson for SeekingArrangement.com,
who adds that in 2012, most sugar daddies reported donating to Barack
Obama. More than a thousand deep-pocketed donors with loose views on
relationship norms said they gave to campaigns — and just as they
bankrolled the aspirations of their sugar babies in return for time and
favors, dozens of these men paid cold hard cash to help fuel the
ambitions of candidates such as Ted Cruz and Ben CarsonOpioid Prescriptions Drop for First Time in Two Decades
NYT
WASHINGTON
— After years of relentless growth, the number of opioid prescriptions
in the United States is finally falling, the first sustained drop since
OxyContin hit the market in 1996.
For
much of the past two decades, doctors were writing so many
prescriptions for the powerful opioid painkillers that, in recent years,
there have been enough for every American adult to have a bottle. But
for each of the past three years — 2013, 2014 and 2015 — prescriptions
have declined, a review of several sources of data shows.
Experts
say the drop is an important early signal that the long-running
prescription opioid epidemic may be peaking, that doctors have begun
heeding a drumbeat of warnings about the highly addictive nature of the
drugs and that federal and state efforts to curb them are having an
effect.
“The
culture is changing,” said Dr. Bruce Psaty, a researcher at the
University of Washington in Seattle who studies drug safety. “We are on
the downside of a curve with opioid prescribing now.”
IMS
Health, an information firm whose data on prescribing is used
throughout the health care industry, found a 12 percent decline in
opioid prescriptions nationally since a peak in 2012. Another data
company, Symphony Health Solutions, reported a drop of about 18 percent
during those years. Opioid prescriptions have fallen in 49 states since
2013, according to IMS, with some of the sharpest decreases coming in
West Virginia, the state considered the center of the opioid epidemic,
and in Texas and Oklahoma. (Only South Dakota showed an increase.)
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