{"id":117969,"date":"2019-03-05T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=117969"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:11:30","slug":"why-are-so-many-americans-dying-from-the-big-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=117969","title":{"rendered":"Why are so many Americans dying from the &#8220;BIG 3&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Record Number in US Dying Due to Alcohol, Drugs, Suicide<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GetFile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GetFile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GetFile.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GetFile-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jeffrey Rodack<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>More than 150,000 Americans died due to alcohol, drugs and suicide in 2017, according a new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>The total is the most ever recorded and twice as many as in 1999, said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/number-of-americans-dying-due-to-alcohol-drugs-and-suicide-is-at-an-all-time-high-300806379.html\">the\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0released Tuesday by the Trust for America\u2019s Health and the Well Being Trust (WBT).<\/p>\n<p>Here are key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Synthetic opioid deaths jumped 45 percent between 2016 and 2017. They have increased 10-fold in the last five years.<\/li>\n<li>The national rate for deaths due to alcohol, drugs and suicide increased 6 percent from 43.9 to 46.6 death per 100,000 between 2016 and 2017.<\/li>\n<li>In 2017, more than 1,000 people in the U.S. died from synthetic-opioid overdoses every two weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Suicides increased from 13.9 to 14.5 deaths per 100,000 between 2016 and 2017.<\/li>\n<li>West Virginia reported the high death rates from alcohol and suicide \u2013 9 deaths per 100,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cToo many of us are dying from preventable causes, and each time we make progress \u2014 like with prescription opioids \u2014 new problems \u2014 like synthetic opioids \u2014 appear,&#8221; said Benjamin Miller, chief strategy officer for the WBT. &#8220;Tackling such a complex problem is not about adding up small changes \u2013 but really about transformation at a systems level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And John Auerbach, who heads Trust for America\u2019s health, was quoted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2019\/03\/05\/suicide-alcohol-drug-deaths-centers-disease-control-well-being-trust\/3033124002\/\">USA Today<\/a>\u00a0as saying: \u00a0The country needs to better understand and address what drives &#8220;these devastating deaths of despair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/us-alcohol-drugs-suicide\/2019\/03\/05\/id\/905506\/\">https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/us-alcohol-drugs-suicide\/2019\/03\/05\/id\/905506\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record Number in US Dying Due to Alcohol, Drugs, Suicide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}