Mortality rate is raising

Something is killing more white, middle-aged Americans than anytime in a generation. And it's not cancer, heart disease or car accidents.

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00:00Poured alcohol down the his feeding tube until he died

00:16He blew his head off

00:22I worked with a gentleman he

00:25Was on a lot of painkillers and everything he got dead by doing it

00:39It's largely poisonings and we thought my god what has happened, you know are people mistaking Drano for milk or something

00:46You know, what what and of course?

00:48Poisonings is what the CDC classifies as drug overdoses

00:54So, how do you relieve depression you can relieve it with drug use alcohol use or suicide?

01:07Economics is a major component job availability is a major component

01:15Enough opioid painkillers are prescribed in the United States every year for every adult in the United States

01:22To be on opioids for one month a year

01:30We used to have good factory jobs with on-the-job training

01:33These are the people who could build a good lives for themselves and for their kids and all of that has gone away

01:39You can't take a job away from a guy 55 years old inspecting to start all over again