Is mental illness blamed on the opioid crisis? I didn’t even know that. I think most often it’s the other way around, the opioid crisis is at least partly due to the mental illness in the country. People self medicate. I blame a lot of the mental illness on poverty and/or extreme stress. As far as lead paint, it certainly affected some people, but my guess is it’s a very small group of people relative to the population at large. I think the fairly recent Flint water crisis there was lead in the water, that is a major issue, I don’t know if that was widespread back in the 70’s. My parents never did drugs or lots of drinking, and my guess is neither did the majority of their friends. The drugs and hippies got a lot of attention, but I’m not sure how wide spread it really was. Probably, back in the 70’s a decent number of people were on well water, maybe 30%? Just a guess based on the percentages today.