Alarming US Trends

“Suicide is a major contributor to premature death in the United States, especially among people aged 10–34, for whom it is the second leading cause of death.

- Junious Stanton

In the United States, suicide increased by 35% from 1999 to 2018 before declining by 5% through 2020. Despite the overall recent decline, rates continued to increase among females aged 10–24 and among males aged 10–44 and 75 and over.” https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr024.pdf

The American Empire is in accelerated decline both internationally and domestically. We are witnessing and experiencing appalling trends that do not bode well for our society. For example, suicides and drug overdoses are at record levels in the U.S. “Drug overdose deaths spiked after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and during 2020 and 2021 claimed nearly 200,000 lives. This surge has occurred alongside a rapidly changing US drug supply. More potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl are now playing a role in nearly 70 percent of deaths...New federal provisional data suggest that drug overdose deaths dropped modestly in the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. In 2021, a record 106,699 lives were lost. An estimated 79,117 Americans died from drug overdoses between January and September 2022, fewer than the 81,155 people who died during the first nine months of 2021, but still 50 percent higher than pre-2020 levels.” Overdose Deaths Declined But Remained Near Record Levels During the First Nine Months of 2022 As States Cope With Synthetic Opioids https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2023/overdose-deaths-declined-remained-near-record-levels-during-first-nine-months-20 22-states.