NBC News (6/12, Edwards) reports on its website that “rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol have reached an all-time high” in the US, but “some states have been hit far harder than others.” A report from the Commonwealth Fund showed that West Virginia “had the highest drug overdose death rates, fueled mostly by the opioid epidemic,” and that those rates “rose by 450 percent between 2005 and 2017.” Death rates from suicide and alcohol “also showed regional disparities,” with people dying “at higher rates by suicide or from alcohol than from drugs in Montana, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Oregon and Wyoming.”
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— “https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/u-s-death-rates-suicides-alcohol-drug-overdoses-reach-all-n1016216, “Erika Edwards, NBC News, June 12, 2019