Die alkoholbedingten Todesfälle haben sich in den USA von 1999 bis 2020 mehr als verdoppelt

Always have to wonder how consistently something like this is tracked over decades. For “the most alarming spike – nearly fourfold – in those aged 25 to 34”, if a 27 year old dies now of fentanyl overdose and they also find alcohol in their system, is that an alcohol-related death? Considering that drinking is, on average, down, it’s kind of hard to believe that a bunch of 20 year olds are dying of cirrhosis.

Life got weird for a lot of people during that time. Imagine some 19 year old riding high on life in 1999. Everything is running fairly good then 9/11 happens. There’s a generation lost to an unnecessary series of forever wars. In my high school there were a lot of kids going to school for computers cause this dot com bubble was never going to burst then it did and you suddenly have a large amount of kids all looking for jobs in the same field. Then when they’re ready to settle down 2008 happens and the housing market takes a dump. Jobs keep drying up. Then those idiots start pumping out kids of their own who get their brains rotted by the internet v2.0. So now you have a group of late 20 something adults who are told the promise of a future their parents and grandparents had will not happen AND the methods to obtain it have gotten harder but do not complain about it. Yeah I can see how a bourbon or two to shut life up for a minute can turn into a problem.

Substance abuse largely comes from social isolation. Our society is too _individualistic_ with few safety nets.

Lack of 3rd spaces and time off work to connect with others, mixed with new social media platforms and binge streaming is the culprit.

Throw in a pandemic lock-down and you have a perfect storm.

This reports total deaths vs percentage of population, so I’d like to see percentage of population for a better understanding.