Posted on 01/19/2016 12:42:57 AM PST by ruination
Drug overdoses are driving up the death rate of young white adults in the United States to levels not seen since the end of the AIDS epidemic more than two decades ago — a turn of fortune that stands in sharp contrast to falling death rates for young blacks, a New York Times analysis of death certificates has found.
The rising death rates for those young white adults, ages 25 to 34, make them the first generation since the Vietnam War years of the mid-1960s to experience higher death rates in early adulthood than the generation that preceded it.
The Times analyzed nearly 60 million death certificates collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1990 to 2014. It found death rates for non-Hispanic whites either rising or flattening for all the adult age groups under 65 — a trend that was particularly pronounced in women — even as medical advances sharply reduce deaths from traditional killers like heart disease. Death rates for blacks and most Hispanic groups continued to fall.
The analysis shows that the rise in white mortality extends well beyond the 45- to 54-year-old age group documented by a pair of Princeton economists in a research paper that startled policy makers and politicians two months ago.
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#WhiteLivesDontMatter
BINGO!
Much of this problem can be traced back to poppy fields in Afghanistan.
WOW, we have a winner!
Afghanistan produces over 90% of the World’s Opium. The Heroin epidemic in the US started shortly after the US Military took over Afghanistan Borders. I wonder how All that Heroin got past them??
W#hat would happen to “The War On Drugs” if we truly CLOSED OUR BORDERS and had real security?? Millions and Millions of Government Drug Warriors would be UNEMPLOYED.
You can not have a War on Drugs without Drugs!
I have been pointing this out for 10 years!!!
Nonsense - the charts show rising heroin use years before the first legal recreational pot became available for purchase in 2014. Not to mention that it's still only legal in 4 of the 50 states, whereas rising heroin use is a national trend.
A friend from college had a daughter die from a heroin overdose. She had gotten into drugs and bad men. She got “clean” just before her death.
That’s not a solution. There is plenty of heroin on the streets but I have never done any of it. Availability does not = desire. You have to first say to people “Hey, don’t do heroin” and then tell them why.
Society tells people to support gay marriage more than we tell them to avoid heroin. If we tell teens that they can’t avoid having sex, how can we tell them to avoid heroin?
http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/heroin-cape-cod-usa “
We knew several young men, all from upper-middle-class or upper-class families, who died from heroin overdose in the past two years. They were suffering from mild or moderate mental illness (typically depression or bi-polar disorder), stopped taking their prescription meds and going to counselling, and started self-medicating with cheap, high-purity heroin.
LOL! Yes. Yes I am.
Probably several times. The dead don’t recognize any restrictions on their ability to vote.
Wealthy people tend to be leftists. If they aren’t, their kids tend to be; for example, Hillary Clinton.
I coined the term “narco-darwinism” some years back. I invoke it again now. Substances that will kill you directly or inhibit good judgment or other survival mechanisms should be shunned.
We were all taught that heroin is highly addictive. The current drug using generation is full of despair, no hope for the future. They think this is all there is. Most are barely getting by, living in their parents basement, or with 5 other people in a 2 bedroom apartment. Working 2 jobs and still barely making ends meet. They turn on the tv and hear about this great recovery. They wonder why it passed them up. If this is life, do they really want to do this for another 50 years.
Even though there may be a change in the trend, the total numbers are still small, demographically.
They are just talking about three one hundreths of one percent increase, over 15 years.
It does identify a problem with heroin and oxycontin though.
We need a new first line prescription painkiller that is less addictive than oxycontin.
Wealthy people do like the totalitarianism of the left as a means to keep the little people in line; they like fascism as long as they are calling the shots.
It probably can be, but I remember nearly 20 years ago when this was a problem in the Pacific northwest (because the price of heroin had fallen so low).
I watched that last week. It was pretty good.
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