Report: "Deaths of Despair" Decline Nationwide, but Still More Prevalent in Appalachia
Public Health,Death,Rural America,Drug Overdoses,Mental Health
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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)...
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