A new analysis by researchers at UCLA Health found that mortality rates of middle-aged Black Americans caused by the 'deaths of despair'—suicide, drug overdose and alcoholic liver disease—surpassed the rate of white Americans in 2022. Native Americans also had more than double the rate of both Black and white Americans that year.
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