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I’m presuming this doesn’t count any “accidental” ODs, which no doubt are a thing but not a 100% thing.
by hindsightbias 3y ago
I’m presuming this doesn’t count any “accidental” ODs, which no doubt are a thing but not a 100% thing.
- WiSaGaN 3y agoYou can reference "disease of despair" in this case, which includes "drug overdose (including alcohol overdose), suicide, and alcoholic liver disease". "For 2018, some 158,000 U.S. citizens died from these causes, compared to 65,000 in 1995." [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair
- droopyEyelids 3y agoThis is an interesting point because, from the people I've met, I'm not sure there are non-depressed opiate addicts? Like depression seems almost to be a prerequisite for opiate addiction. Also seems strongly correlated with alcoholism
- vintermann 3y agoI guess they don't call them depressants for nothing.
- LatteLazy 3y agoI remember reading about the oddly high number of men who die in "accidents" where they drive at very high speed into large stationary objects without breaking or swerving. The theory being those are just suicides without notes that get miscatagorised as single vehicle fatal accidents.