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Posted on 12/11/2018 11:42:12 AM PST by Red Badger
¹The number of deaths per 100,000 total population.
Source: http://wonder.cdc.gov
States are categorized from highest rate to lowest rate. Although adjusted for differences in age-distribution and population size, rankings by state do not take into account other state specific population characteristics that may affect the level of mortality. When the number of deaths is small, rankings by state may be unreliable due to instability in death rates.
It’s the North East by a landslide.
One way to self eliminate the weak and stupid. No one twisted their arm to use drugs. What about the millions spent on anti-drug programs?
Can't be overemphasized. I can't stand how these willful druggies have been made "victims" by many. This goes for the "opioid epidemic" as well.
I live in FL and was surprised that we did not rank higher. I guess there is always next year (!)
Seriously - Ohio, oy! And an equally surprising positive - CA. Go figure. Definitely a depressed white trash phenomenon.
West Virginia has the highest rate by far.
West Virginia is the worst by a mile though. 52 deaths per 100k.
Yes, but that NE strip takes the cake. It’s NE to me anyway.
I’m quite certain that super concentration of high overdose rates in leftist urban areas in otherwise conservative to moderate states skews the results considerably.
I am sure that is correct.
Two areas stand out:Appalachia and New England.
I lived in Kentucky for five years and worked there as a nurse. That was in the 80’s. No offense, but Appalachia is essentially a white ghetto whose problems were only greatly exacerbated by the Great Society’s “programs.”
New England, on the other hand, has become the home of transplanted hippies and their children. Drugs and atheism are core to this culture. I grew up in the Northeast and know all too well how these folks think.
The problem is cultural. Take away religion and replace it with government handouts and secular explanations and solutions and this is what you get.
As these phenomena spread throughout the nation, so does the fallout. Drug abuse is one of its more visible expressions.
West Virginia is in the northeast? And Kentucky?
Need the 2018 map to be sure, but comparing it to the marijuana legality map is interesting.
2018 won’t be ready until 2020...............if then..............government workers.............
Compared to me in. Break the country into 4 even 6 parts and there you go.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/flu_pneumonia_mortality/flu_pneumonia.htm
Alabama is ranked 9th for flu. Cunningham.
Compare 2016 with 1999 for east vs. west. Pretty much a flip flop. Why?
West Virginia
You can always depend on them being at the top of any state list that is negative.
Actually, the opioid death rates are highest in the former factory areas of Ohio, with white men in their 50s the most affected. The pain clinics go where there is a lot of emotional pain from job loss. It’s easy to track these areas by looking at housing prices as a proxy. All along the border to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Columbus, the capital, has been siphoning money from outlying areas since the 1970s, such that a house that goes for $350,000 in the Columbus suburbs goes for $60,000 along the Ohio River.
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