Two Princeton economists set forth the narrative that 'deaths of despair' — like suicide and ODs — were highest among middle-aged white Americans. But new research shows that their analysis omitted Native Americans, who were dying at far greater rates.
shows that these premature deaths have affected American Indian and Alaska Native communities far more than white communities.
"In the same period that deaths among white Americans did go up by about 9%, deaths among Native Americans went up by 30%," says Friedman. "Indian country problems rise and fall with the economy like everyone else's," he says,"but we're just used to a lack of resources and opportunities for a whole bunch of reasons that go way back."
The new study also found that the disparities in midlife mortality have only worsened since 2013, especially exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. In 2020, the death rates among middle-aged Native people due to despair-related causes was twice that among white people.
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