Mortality rates and trends in the United States due to drug use disorders have increased nationally since 1980, and while rates due to alcohol use disorders and self-harm have decreased, they are on an upward trend since 2000.
These rates, including those due to interpersonal violence, also vary drastically in terms of geography, down to the county level, according to an analysis of data from 1980 to 2014.
The analysis, led by Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, PhD, an assistant professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, examined substance abuse disorders, including those with drugs and alcoholβwhich accounted for nearly 4% of all deaths in the United States in 2015βas well as interpersonal violence and self-harm in order to identify trends to inform prevention and therapeutic efforts.
[For more on this story by Matt Hoffman, go to http://www.mdmag.com/medical-n...selfharm-on-the-rise]
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