Monday, December 7, 2015

An epidemic of pain


Our recent analysis of causes of death among American women confirmed increasing death rates among non-Hispanic white women ages 15 to 54 specifically. Like Case and Deaton, we found accidental poisonings (linked to prescription opioid and heroin use) and suicides to be among the biggest drivers of this increase.

http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/understand-climbing-death-rates-among-white-americans-look-women#.VmW3b-_Vjbc.mailto