Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by topkai22 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @03:41AM (#42326211)

Covid and opioid deaths. Opioids are bad. To quote the lancet “Opioid overdose mortality rates are alarmingly high, but measures based on death counts alone do not fully capture the impact of this crisis as they do not account for the young age at which most opioid-related deaths occur…” (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-19...)

The particular article found opioid deaths lowered life expectancy by 0.67 years, which is a crazy number.

Drug overdose deaths finally seem to be trending down in 2024, but they are still elevated and awful.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by concordDance on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:08AM (#42326673)

> Opioids are bad.

Years of life aren't the most important thing. Opiods might reduce life expectancy but increase the averge quality of life of those living in a given year.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by kataklasm on Thursday December 05, 2024 @08:33AM (#42328077)

For those using them according to prescriptions maybe, sure. But the opioid crisis isn't an opioid crisis because people are using them according to what their doc told them. It's a crisis because they are abused.

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