Pain in the nation update: while deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide slowed slightly in 2017, rates are still at historic highs

Pain in the nation update: while deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide slowed slightly in 2017, rates are still at historic highs

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Issue brief (Trust for America's Health)
Contributor(s):
Trust for America's Health, issuing body.
Well Being Trust, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, DC : Trust for America's Health, March 2019
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Alcohol-Related Disorders -- prevention & control
Alcohol-Related Disorders -- epidemiology
Opioid-Related Disorders -- epidemiology
Opioid-Related Disorders -- prevention & control
Suicide Prevention
Suicide -- trends
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Deaths from synthetic opioids continue to rise sharply and suicides are growing at the fastest pace in years. More than 150,000 Americans died from alcohol- and drug-induced causes and suicide in 2017--more than twice as many as in 1999--according to a new analysis by Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and Well Being Trust (WBT) of mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (19 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101751500 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101751500