Deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide now outpace diabetes, study shows

[Judi Lynn]

Source: ABC News

Deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide now outpace diabetes, study shows
By ITALO M. BROWN Aug 27, 2018, 8:08 PM ET

Deaths from self injury, a category that includes drug and alcohol use and committing suicide, has surpassed diabetes as the seventh-leading cause in the U.S., a study has shown.

Self-injury mortality is a term that encompasses deaths due to accidental and non-accidental drug-intoxication, as well as suicide, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the study, researchers used previously available data from the CDC to estimate the number of deaths due to self injury and compared it to the number of deaths from diabetes. Using data from 2016, the researchers showed that 29.1 people per 100,000 died from self injury compared with 24.8 per 100,000 from diabetes.

The true number of deaths may be grossly underreported, the researchers said, as risk factors and reporting methods vary and are often difficult to determine.


Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/deaths-drugs-alcohol-suicide-now-outpace-diabetes-study/story?id=57438591

[GusBob]

1. Are deaths from Diabetes declining?

I can't open the link on my clunky device

I reckon there is better treatment for diabetes, but I think the overall incidence of diabetes is increasing

[KT2000]

2. this is what happened

in Russia after the breakup.

[TygrBright]

3. By mischaracterizing these as "self-injury deaths"...

...rather than deaths resulting from untreated (or unsuccessfully treated) disease, this article perpetuates stigma and ignorance.

And stigma and ignorance are at the heart of the very epidemics ABC News is clickbaiting and concern-trolling with the article.

Which is DISGUSTING.

repudiationally,
Bright