The opioid epidemic that has ravaged life expectancy among economically stressed whites is taking a rising toll among blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, driving up the overall rate of premature death among people in the prime of their lives.
Since the beginning of this decade, death rates have risen among people ages 25 to 44 in virtually every racial and ethnic group and in almost every state, according to a Washington Post analysis. After a century of decreases, the overall death rate for Americans in these prime years rose 8 percent between 2010 and 2015.
The jump in death rates has been driven in large measure by drug overdoses and alcohol abuse, according to The Post's analysis of mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | Special Report | Sun., Jun. 11, 2017 10:19 a.m. | | | | | | U.S. drug crisis is now pushing up death rates for almost all groups of Americans | The opioid epidemic that has ravaged life expectancy among economically stressed whites is taking a rising toll among blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, driving up the overall rate of premature death among people in the prime of their lives. Since the beginning of this decade, death rates have risen among people ages 25 to 44 in virtually every racial and ethnic group and in almost every state, according to a Washington Post analysis. After a century of decreases, the overall death rate for Americans in these prime years rose 8 percent between 2010 and 2015. The jump in death rates has been driven in large measure by drug overdoses and alcohol abuse, according to The Post's analysis of mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | | Read more » | | | |
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