Report: "Deaths of Despair" Decline Nationwide, but Still More Prevalent in Appalachia

The rate of "deaths of despair" is slowly declining, a new report said, but they are still more prevalent in Appalachia than in the rest of the country.

Deaths of despair – those associated with drug overdoses, alcohol, and suicide – had been on the rise nationwide throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the research done for the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)...