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I recall that in a recent thread about longevity, someone mentioned or showed statistics that the death rate was increasing for some groups due to drug abuse or other causes.
Just now, ran across this article that explained in more details. It's the rising death rate of white Americans who are not college-educated. A couple of economists found that they are suffering from "deaths of despair" - suicide and alcohol and drug abuse.
The cause is lack of economic opportunities and poor economic prospects. It sounds bleak. The economists also provided some explanations as to why Europeans did not have the same problem.
See: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/economic-despair/520473/
Just now, ran across this article that explained in more details. It's the rising death rate of white Americans who are not college-educated. A couple of economists found that they are suffering from "deaths of despair" - suicide and alcohol and drug abuse.
The cause is lack of economic opportunities and poor economic prospects. It sounds bleak. The economists also provided some explanations as to why Europeans did not have the same problem.
"... whites aged 50-54 with a high-school degree or less had been dying at a rate 30 percent lower than that of that of all blacks in the same age group in 1999, but by 2015, their mortality rate was 30 percent higher than that of all blacks in that age group."
See: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/03/economic-despair/520473/