The Twitter feed of the American Association of Wine Economists just carried this chart, which shows that the states with the highest per-capital consumption of wine have very low opiod usage rates, and the states with high opioid usage tend to have low wine consumption rates.
According to the 60 Minutes segment that aired last night, addiction problems along with other ailments may be remedied by taking psilocybin’s. Of course, further study may need to be done but the people interviewed for the segment seemed really happy with the outcome. Makes sense to me! lol
Whilst the correlation may well be spurious; the regression of R2 =0.36 is very low and basically says there is a very weak statistical correlation (at best) between the two variables. Personally I would never a take a correlation seriously with a R2 of 0.36.