Blacks, Latinos, Asians Being Increasingly Hit
by Maggie Fox
“Despair deaths” from drugs, alcohol and suicide have reached new
peaks in the U.S. and are not just killing whites, but spiking in
communities of color, as well, according to a new report released
Thursday.
More than 142,000 Americans died from drug or alcohol overdoses and from suicide in 2016, an 11 percent increase over 2015, the report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust finds.
“These
142,000 ‘despair deaths’ in 2016 add to the more than one million
Americans who died from drugs, alcohol or suicide in the previous
decade,” the report reads.
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Source: NBC News
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