The U.S. death rate has been falling for decades, but researchers have detected one group in which the rates have been steadily ticking up -- middle-aged white people.Remember what happened in Russia during its collapse. Middle-aged men, feeling useless and hopeless, suicided by drink and drugs.
Suicides and deaths from drug overdose and alcohol abuse are being blamed.
Deaths rates for other races have continued to fall, as they have for whites 65 and older. But death rates for whites 35 to 44 have been level recently, and they're beginning to turn up for whites 55 to 64. Most strikingly, though, death rates for whites ages 45 to 54 have risen by half a percent per year since 1998, said the authors, economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton of Princeton University.
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