| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Überdosis - Drogentod
USA. How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
USA. How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
(...) When doctors do look deeper into the reasons patients addicted to opioids become suicidal, some economists predict they’ll find deep reservoirs of depression and pain.
In a seminal paper published in 2015, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case tracked falling marriage rates, the loss of stable middle-class jobs and rising rates of self-reported pain. The authors say opioid overdoses, suicides and diseases related to alcoholism are all often “deaths of despair.” (KHN – Kaiser’s Health News, USA. 28.03.2018)
https://khn.org/news/difficult-to-gauge-rate-of-suicide-among-deaths-from-opioid-overdoses