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Zak on Sept 22, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: When half a million Americans died and nobody noti...

There was a big drop in deaths in 2004, but I'm really curious as to what caused the big increase in 2014.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...

trillic on Sept 22, 2023 | [–]

Fentanyl?

https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/2023-Drug-od...

downvotetruth on Sept 22, 2023 | | [–]

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/health/american-death-rat...

mcguire on Sept 22, 2023 | [–]

You mean the drop from 8.52/1000 in 2003 to 8.12/1000 in 2008 that roughly followed the slope of the decrease from 9.59/1000 in 1968?

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