MOSCOW, December 13 - RIA Novosti. The number of people who die each year from a drug overdose, alcoholism or mental disorders in the United States has tripled over the past 35 years, say researchers in an article published in the JAMA .
"Such an increase in the number of deaths from drug abuse and the problems of a psychological nature, as well as other causes of death examined in this study, indicate the need to develop measures that would help to neutralize the difference in mortality between the most advantaged and most disadvantaged districts of America" - Christopher said Murray (Christopher Murray), director of the National Institute for health metrics and evaluation.
Last October, the Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and several social scientists have published a study in which they noted the existence of this epidemic, "consumer addiction" in the US, coupled with the increasing popularity of avalanche opioid analgesic among physicians and residents. Thanks to her, the mortality rate among certain groups of the population of America did not fall, and has grown over the past few years.
Later, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania found that the increase in mortality and frequency of abuse was typical not only for opioid analgesics, but also for conventional antidepressants by examining statistics on mortality in the US from 1996 to the present day.
National Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle found that the epidemic of "pharmacy" and street drug addiction, alcoholism and other factors actually tripled the number of its victims as compared to the 80 years of the last century, gathering statistics on mortality in more than two thousand polling counties in the United States.
Scientists emphasize that the purpose of their research is the usual estimate of mortality, which led, as it turned out, to a rather unexpected results and disclosure of very sharp contrasts in the causes of death in the affluent and economically stagnant parts of the United States.
The main cause of death for Americans, as 35 years ago, remains the heart and vascular disease and cancer, gradually exciting the leading position in the causes of death among young people. On the other hand, they began to pick the socio-economic problems - drug addiction, alcoholism, suicide and mental illness.
For example, the frequency of suicides and murders increased in about half of the districts of America, and the number of deaths due to alcohol, drugs and mental health problems increased by more than 200% in two thousand electoral districts (63% of the total).
This growth, as well as changes in other causes of death, was extremely uneven - for example, in some counties, relatively prosperous coastal states, such as Florida, the number of deaths from these three problems decreased.
On the other hand, in the troubled industrial states like Ohio, the number of deaths from drug and alcohol abuse has increased in some cases fantastic 20-23 times. The researchers hope that these findings will be considered by health services to develop new protection for US public health measures.
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