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Re:Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans by Alex3917 on Monday November 02, 2015 @08:56PM (#10496859)
I did an analysis a couple years ago and found that drug misuse kills about a third of Americans. Possibly even more if you include the new study that found that the surgeon general's report is undercounting tobacco deaths by 80k per year or whatever, which I didn't because that wasn't out at the time.

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/05/the-one-sta...

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1407211#abstract

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Re:Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans by danieltillett on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:00PM (#10497148)
Alex interesting post, but I would not put too much value in the ADR numbers. Getting accurate information on the cause of death due to ADR is not easy given death in hospital rarely has a single cause.
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