U.S. death rates from suicides, alcohol and drug overdoses reach all-time high
Source: AOL.com
Rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol have reached an all-time high in the United States, but some states have been hit far harder than others, according to a report released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund.
The report examined data in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., taking an in-depth look at 47 factors that have an impact on health outcomes, including insurance coverage, access to doctors, obesity, smoking, even tooth loss, and ultimately assigning each state a score. The data are from 2017.
Although the rates of the so-called deaths of despair are up nationally, the report's investigators were particularly struck by regional differences in the rates.
"When we look at what’s going on in mid-Atlantic states — West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania — those are the states that have the highest rates of drug overdose deaths in the country," David Radley, a senior scientist for the Commonwealth Fund, said. Rates in those states are at least double the national average of fatal drug overdose rates.
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Some outside America might wonder why........
Threats from climate change, disappearing means to climb the ladder to success and then no job security or guarantee of retirement, multiple conflicts around the globe, increasing gun violence including mass killings, insecure schools and businesses, increasing domestic violence, little or no savings or other safety net, health care unavailable or very expensive, community fabric being ripped apart, politicians and media personalities keeping everyone's heads spinning with bullshit, creeping price inflation and stagnant wages, a highly divided and verbally abrasive populace, people's emotional world now controlled by social media, and I just don't get no damn respect!
I'm sure I've missed many others but that enough to create mass collective insanity......
Not to worry. The GOP will soon begin mass distribution of free Xanax and Effexor any day now....
PS: I forgot to include skyrocketing unsolicited sales phone calls every day.
all the individual stressful issues that most people have such as relationship and/or job problems, issues with raising kids, taxes, deaths and illnesses and keeping our homes in reasonable condition.
Quite stressful and sometimes depressing to be an American these days when we add in all those external inputs....
There is a lot to digest, pun intended.
And am in the same boat as you.
for the elderly couple
in suicides in the midwest...farming communities...Lots of speculation
about the reason...causes..
Its just a shame, that's all...
