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While these subjects are connected for some individuals - it's not wise to pile them up together into the single stat number. Wrong stats. Which drugs? Top 5-

• DanBC 10y ago
  (I upvoted you.) For mental disorders it's something like: 1) Anorexia Nervosa (historically had very high death rate, something like 20%) 2) Body Dysmorphic Disorder (most people don't know that this has a high suicide rate) 3) Major depression 4) Psychotic illness (people with psychosis tend to live 20 years less than the general population) 5) ADHD (I'm not sure of the ordering of the last 3.) As for drugs, far and away the leading cause of death and harm is going to be alcohol.
  • openasocket 10y ago
    So, clearly the anorexic people die because they starve themselves, people with depression commit suicide, but what's killing the people with ADHD? I know ADHD is correlated with greater risk taking, greater likelihood to abuse drugs, but is it severe enough to put it in the top 5 or 10?