Death rates for drug overdoses, shootings and all other injuries “increased substantially” nationwide during the two decades heading into the COVID-19 pandemic, a study has found.
Death rates for drug overdoses, shootings and all other injuries “increased substantially” nationwide during the two decades heading into the COVID-19 pandemic, a study hasA team of 17 researchers examined 3,813,894 “external causes” death certificates recorded for adults aged 20 and older from Jan. 1, 1999, to Dec. 31, 2020. Their study was published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, and their research was funded by a National Institutes of Health grant.
“The rapid increase in deaths due to unintentional poisonings and firearm homicides is a national emergency that requires urgent public health interventions at the local and national levels,” the researchers wrote. The research confirms a widening gap that shows Americans “have experienced poorer health and shorter lives than people in other high-income countries” over the past decade, according to an invited commentary published with the findings.
Shootings and drug overdoses have confounded therapeutic public health campaigns in the low-income, Black communities where they occur most often, they added. Motor vehicle deaths increased by an average of 1.1% per year between 2010 and 2020 after dropping for decades, the study noted. The JAMA study shows that drug overdoses have vastly outpaced guns in driving recent declines in U.S. life expectancy, said Keith Humphreys, a Stanford University addiction researcher who tracks the opioid crisis.
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