Much of the state's tourism-dependent economy has drooped and legions of workers have been laid off.
State Health Department records show that drug-dependent babies were hospitalized 55 times in 1999, a figure that increased to 672 in 2011.
Dreyzehner, a medical doctor who practiced both occupational and addiction medicine, ordered all medical centers in the state to report every case of drug-dependent newborns.
Certainly experience from abroad does not suggest that state funding is a panacea: the German constitutional court, fearing that parties were becoming over-dependent on public funds, ruled in 1992 that state funding for politics should be reduced.
The state estimates that nearly 1, 200 drug-dependent babies have been born in Tennessee in 2010 and 2011, the last two years where data is available.
What his numbers show is that British exporters would probably be more damaged by a eurozone implosion than German ones: or to put it another way, businesses in the UK - which, to state the stunningly obvious, is not a member of the euro area - are more dependent on the health of the eurozone than German companies.
Nowadays of course, with state-organised social security, people are no longer dependent on their families in the same way.
Many in tourist-dependent Florida would oppose drilling close to the state's western coast.
The state-owned weather forecasters are keen to cash in, but they remain heavily dependent on their governments.
Rick Santorum is among a group of coal-state politicians who argues that coal can make the U.S. less dependent on imported oil.
Some argue that more state cash for politics would create a fairer system, making political communication less dependent on fund-raising.
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