Rising deaths from suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse for both Black and white Americans are overwhelmingly driven by increases in drug-related deaths since the late 1990s. Deaths related to alcohol abuse and suicide among both White and black Americans changed during the Great Recession, despite some racial differences across age groups.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33778856

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Populations in counties w a prescription drug-related opioid epidemic tend to be small, remote, older, mostly white, former farm/factory areas in decline since 1990s. By contrast, heroin and opioid syndemic counties tend to be more urban, connected to interstates, ethnically diverse, and in general more economically secure. County data provided.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33814639

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Rising deaths from suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse for both Black and white Americans are overwhelmingly driven by increases in drug-related deaths since the late 1990s. Deaths related to alcohol abuse and suicide among both White and black Americans changed during the Great Recession, despite some racial differences across age groups.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33778856

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Crisis
Myriad
Killing, despair
Societal illness
Unending

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/26/opinion/us-mass-shootings-despair.html