Thanks to drugs, alcohol and suicide, death rates among middle aged white Americans is on the rise - Polidicks

[b]Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds[/b] Via [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans-study-finds.html]NY Times[/url] ____________________ [quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/FGC1WTe.jpg[/img] [i]Angus Deaton with his wife, Anne Case, right, last month after he won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. Together, they wrote a study analyzing mortality rates.[/i] - - - Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling. That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids. The analysis by Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case may offer the most rigorous evidence to date of both the causes and implications of a development that has been puzzling demographers in recent years: the declining health and fortunes of poorly educated American whites. In middle age, they are dying at such a high rate that they are increasing the death rate for the entire group of middle-aged white Americans, Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case found. The mortality rate for whites 45 to 54 years old with no more than a high school education increased by 134 deaths per 100,000 people from 1999 to 2014. “It is difficult to find modern settings with survival losses of this magnitude,” wrote two Dartmouth economists, Ellen Meara and Jonathan S. Skinner, in a commentary to the Deaton-Case analysis to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Wow,” said Samuel Preston, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on mortality trends and the health of populations, who was not involved in the research. “This is a vivid indication that something is awry in these American households.”[/quote] Well that's... interesting. #WhiteLivesMatter?

A study was also done recently that provided that whites have it harder off when they are on the lower-end of income. Oh and whites also are on the worse end of the stick regarding education funding... And welfare.... And school admissions... And a ton of other things. It's pretty depressing when you start reading into it.

Look at all that white privilege.

In Canada the highest group that commits suicide is 50 year old White Men. I think there's a lot of trouble to be found when the causes are uncovered, and hopefully they do so fast because, well, it's quite unfortunate, although I can understand the reasons for drug abuse and suicide.

The Eighties are catching up to them.

Wonder what are the ratios in San Francisco.

[QUOTE=Fapplejack;49081874]The Eighties are catching up to them.[/QUOTE] yh your right man

[QUOTE=Keyblockor1;49081863]In Canada the highest group that commits suicide is 50 year old White Men. I think there's a lot of trouble to be found when the causes are uncovered, and hopefully they do so fast because, well, it's quite unfortunate, although I can understand the reasons for drug abuse and suicide.[/QUOTE] [Citation needed]? I was under the impression that this is mostly an "American" issue, not related to people in their late 40s and 50s worldwide.

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49081713]A study was also done recently that provided that whites have it harder off when they are on the lower-end of income. Oh and whites also are on the worse end of the stick regarding education funding... And welfare.... And school admissions... And a ton of other things. It's pretty depressing when you start reading into it.[/QUOTE] You got a source for that?