The number of deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in 2017 hit the highest level since federal data collection started in 1999, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by two public health nonprofits.
The national rate for deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide rose from 43.9 to 46.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2017, a 6 percent increase, the Trust for America's Health and the Well Being Trust reported Tuesday. That was a slower increase than in the previous two years, but it was greater than the 4 percent average annual increase since 1999.
Deaths from suicides rose from 13.9 to 14.5 deaths per 100,000, a 4 percent increase. That was double the average annual pace over the previous decade.
Suicide by suffocation increased 42 percent from 2008 to 2017. Suicide by firearm increased 22 percent in that time.
Psychologist Benjamin Miller, chief strategy officer of the Well Being Trust, says broader efforts are needed to address the underlying causes of alcohol and drug use and suicide.
"It's almost a joke how simple we're trying to make these issues," he says. "We're not changing direction and it's getting worse."
It comes to no surprise for those who already know that America is an Empire in decline. From mass outsourcing in the 80s and 90s, never-ending debt insolvency, to a growing police state stripped from most foundational constitutional rights (and the few left still under heavy attack), biggest prison population in the world (America holds 1/4th of all global prisoners), increasing addiction to video games, loveless sex and digital smut, rapid decline in morals and ethics, increasing political tensions and division, crumbling third world infrastructure, rampant corruption, state-controlled media (with complete political bias at that), highest paying jobs now work for male soap operas (national sports on TV), retail stores shutting down everywhere, The Ropers was canceled after only two seasons, Big Tech and govt spying on consumers, an epidemic of poverty and grown men/women living with their parents (studen loan debt insolvency has a roll to play in this too), a nation where the most corrupt liars and crooks and former lobbyists all hold high positions in government, toxic waste dumped into mass produced foods, our vaccines tainted and poisoned with heavy metals, school shootings all over because the system we created is making our children go insane (maybe stop pumping them full of SSRIs and other psycho-inducing drugs), alcoholism is now the norm in America (by 2030 they predict 1 out of 4 Americans will suffer from severe alcoholism and die young), our nation's borders are being invaded by foreign armies yet we pay record taxes for so-called "national security" (HA!), we have a mockery of justice, an Empire who's reserve currency status is now being challenged across the globe by other powerful entities, global distrust in America an all time high, political persecutions can now be seen here, censorship and all the rest. Meanwhile, the population is facing skyrocketing rates of cancer and diabetes due to bad diet.
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