Posted on 03/23/2017 2:49:45 PM PDT by blam
In the US, death rates for middle-aged white working-class Americans are bucking a global trend.
Instead of falling as treatments for killers like heart disease and cancer improve, death rates for white Americans without a college degree are on the rise, largely driven by increased rates of drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol use.
These are considered "deaths of despair," Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton write in a new Brookings Paper on Economic Activity that describes the trend. The study follows up on Case and Deaton's previous work, which caused a stir in 2015 when it first revealed these surprising numbers.
In the years since, these changes have "continued unabated," Case and Deaton write.
Death rates from drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol-related liver disease have risen for non-Hispanic white men and women without college degrees between the ages of 25 and 64, the new paper suggests. At the same time, progress in reducing deaths from cancer and heart disease has slowed for these groups (it's stopped all together in the case of heart disease).
According to the researchers, the trend started in the Southwest and spread across the US.
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If I voted for Hitlery, I would off myself too.
Call it the Obama Spike of Despair.
Try to tell me this is NOT POLICY!!
........just TRY.
“If I voted for Hitlery, I would off myself too.”
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Did you even look at the maps?
The Northeast seems to be doing better than TX and OK.
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Interesting article. Thanks for posting the link.
“Try to tell me this is NOT POLICY!!”
What policy forces people to stick a needle in their arm, a fist full of pills in their mouth or a gun to their head?
Family issues have brought major league stress into my life the last three years. I am not suicidal, I don’t do drugs and I had to quit what little alcohol I consumed because of Type II diabetes. I have a good job, have been divorced almost 16 years and am 60 years old. I am beat down big time. I figure there are quite a few in a similar boat as me. . . very tired and very frustrated.
Life falls apart slowly and then all at once.
And when that hits, it hits hard.
Hang in there, brother, you will build it back.
thank you
Another good one. You post such good stuff. Thanks. :-)
Free advice, and no, you didn’t ask:
Get your focus off yourself. Get yourself into something of some sort where you give to others. This internally convinces you that you have something to give and thus you have value. There is nothing wrong with being very selfish and doing charity work or tutoring work for the express purpose of getting your focus off your internals. Having your body involved (you go there, you do stuff) is more convincing than mentally and emotionally stewing in your own juices. This is the age in life where things turn up or they turn down. Left alone, they tend to turn down at this age, is what I mean. You have to act.
Make the decision, go, and do. Get your focus off yourself.
I don’t know if you are a Christian or not and you don’t have to respond, but to add to your point - I personally know that almost everybody in my rather large inner-circle is dealing with everything from health issues (some cancer), bankruptcy, family death (including loss of children), unemployment, addiction issues of all sorts, and everything in between.
We all have an enemy who wants us as miserable as possible and eventually as dead as possible - in his hands and his realm (hell).
Christians, I’ve noticed - especially lately, have been suffering horribly.
Good News is that we all have an advocate with God in Jesus Christ. In Matthew 11:28-30 He says this:
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Just want you to know, whatever you are going through that you aren’t alone and He loves you. I’m praying for you too FRiend!
I hear you. I’m there. Just tired of it all....
You could also call it Death by Partying or Death by Stupidity.
Baby boomer peak birth populations are entering into the chronic disease/ early possible demise phases of their lives...so the numbers for early deaths will go up...not saying this is the only thing causing this problem but I see no where the data takes the baby boomer peak population numbers into account!
LOL!
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