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Addressing the mental health crisis in America
Tom Zaubler is a psychiatrist and physician executive.
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We are acutely aware of the widespread prevalence of psychiatric illnesses and behavioral disorders. Approximately 20 percent of the population, which transl...
"Ashtabula has seen a rise in... #DeathsOfDespair — drug overdoses, alcoholism & suicides... But... those types of deaths are far outnumbered by #deaths caused by #cardiovascular disease, #diabetes, smoking-related #cancers and other #health issues... Between 2015 & 2019, nearly five times as many Ashtabula residents in their prime died of chronic medical conditions as died of overdoses, suicide and all other external causes combined"
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Rising deaths from suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse for both Black and white Americans are overwhelmingly driven by increases in drug-related deaths since the late 1990s. Deaths related to alcohol abuse and suicide among both White and black Americans changed during the Great Recession, despite some racial differences across age groups.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33778856
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Life expectancy for US White men and women declined between 2013 and 2017. Initial explanations for the decline focused on increases in "deaths of despair" (i.e., deaths from suicide, drug use, and alcohol use), which have been interpreted as a cohort-based phenomenon afflicting middle-aged White Am …
"The most startling aspect of all this is the extent to which these astonishing gaps are not COVID-driven, but rather a product of an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, gun violence, suicide, and alcohol-abuse related maladies, i.e., what Anne Case and Angus Deaton identified as “deaths of despair” a decade ago."
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https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/04/the-us-v-the-developed-world-part-ii
Whe I wrote about this ge eral subject this mor i g I had ’t see this fasci ati g piece, published yesterday i the Fi a cial Times (tha ks to several comme ters for flaggi g it). Some key poi ts: (1) There’s a massive life expecta cy gap betwee E gla d a d the US, that [...]
Populations in counties w a prescription drug-related opioid epidemic tend to be small, remote, older, mostly white, former farm/factory areas in decline since 1990s. By contrast, heroin and opioid syndemic counties tend to be more urban, connected to interstates, ethnically diverse, and in general more economically secure. County data provided.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33814639
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The rapid increase of fatal opioid overdoses over the past two decades is a major U.S. public health problem, especially in non-metropolitan communities. The crisis has transitioned from pharmaceuticals to illicit synthetic opioids and street mixtures, especially in urban areas. Using latent profile …
Rising deaths from suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse for both Black and white Americans are overwhelmingly driven by increases in drug-related deaths since the late 1990s. Deaths related to alcohol abuse and suicide among both White and black Americans changed during the Great Recession, despite some racial differences across age groups.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33778856
#NICHDImpact #DeathsofDespair #Suicide #Mortality #SubstanceAbuse #RacialDisparities #GreatRecession @AndreaTilstra
Life expectancy for US White men and women declined between 2013 and 2017. Initial explanations for the decline focused on increases in "deaths of despair" (i.e., deaths from suicide, drug use, and alcohol use), which have been interpreted as a cohort-based phenomenon afflicting middle-aged White Am …
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