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Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the San Francisco Chronicle:
Tristan O'Tierney, a co-founder of San Francisco payments company Square, died Feb. 23 in Ocala, Fla., of causes related to addiction, his family said. He was 35...
His family is awaiting an official cause of death from officials. "I do know that it was in relation to his addiction," [his mother] Pamela Tierney said. "I know he got to the hospital, he couldn't breathe and they couldn't revive him." O'Tierney was in a three-month rehabilitation program in Ocala and had been battling addiction for three years, Tierney said. O'Tierney openly discussed his struggles with addiction on social media. "As some of you may know, I've been battling with addiction for these past few years," he wrote in September in a now-deleted Instagram post that he also shared on Twitter. "With some success. A lot of failure too though."
Bloomberg remembers him as a former engineer at Yahoo and Apple who was hired to develop Square's original mobile payment app in 2009, then stayed on until 2013.
"In addition to his parents, O'Tierney is survived by his three-old-year daughter, according to an obituary on the website for the funeral home."
His family is awaiting an official cause of death from officials. "I do know that it was in relation to his addiction," [his mother] Pamela Tierney said. "I know he got to the hospital, he couldn't breathe and they couldn't revive him." O'Tierney was in a three-month rehabilitation program in Ocala and had been battling addiction for three years, Tierney said. O'Tierney openly discussed his struggles with addiction on social media. "As some of you may know, I've been battling with addiction for these past few years," he wrote in September in a now-deleted Instagram post that he also shared on Twitter. "With some success. A lot of failure too though."
Bloomberg remembers him as a former engineer at Yahoo and Apple who was hired to develop Square's original mobile payment app in 2009, then stayed on until 2013.
"In addition to his parents, O'Tierney is survived by his three-old-year daughter, according to an obituary on the website for the funeral home."
It might be useful to understand why and how O'Tierney felt disconnected.
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U.S. drug overdose deaths continue to rise; increase fueled by synthetic opioids
CDC’s analysis, based on 2015-2016 data from 31 states and Washington, D.C., showed:
* Across demographic categories, the largest increase in opioid overdose death rates was in males between the ages of 25-44.
* Overall drug overdose death rates increased by 21.5 percent.
** The overdose death rate from synthetic opioids (other than methadone) more than doubled, likely driven by illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF).
** The prescription opioid-related overdose death rate increased by 10.6 percent.
** The heroin-related overdose death rate increased by 19.5 percent.
** The cocaine-related overdose death rate increased by 52.4 percent.
** The psychostimulant-related overdose death rate increased by 33.3 percent.
* Fourteen states had significant increases in death rates involving psychostimulants; the highest death rates occurred primarily in the Midwest and Western regions.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
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Basically the video does not live up to their standard, takes only one source, is disputed etc...etc... Frankly "addiction as a sole psychological explanation" is kookery of the highest grade, and match scientology stuff.
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