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The disease killing white Americans goes way deeper than opioids
Washington Post In rich countries, death rates are supposed to decline. But in the past decade and a half, middle-aged white Americans have actually been dying faster. Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton first pointed out this disturbing trend in a 2015 … ‘Deaths of despair’ fuel rising midlife mortality for white Americans For whites across America, “deaths of despair” are rising White working class increasingly hit with ‘deaths of despair,’ report finds |
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