Young Americans are dying at unprecedented rates, with a new study showing a surge in mortality driven by drug poisoning, alcohol-related deaths, and emerging health challenges.
Young adult deaths in 2023 were 70 percent higher than they would have been if pre-2011 trends had continued.
“One surprising thing about the increases in these causes of death are that these are causes of death that primarily kill people at much older ages,” Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, associate professor of sociology, associate director at Minnesota Population Center, and study author, told The Epoch Times.
The Impact of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
The study, published in JAMA Network Open, examined over 3.3 million deaths of Americans aged 25–44 between 1999 and 2023. There were two distinct trends in rise in mortality, with a rise from 2011 to 2019, and a significant higher rise from 2020 to 2023….