Unlike the United States, which saw a sharp increase in preventable deaths among working-age people over the last two decades, the rate of mortality from “deaths of despair” (including suicide, alcoholism, drug overdoses, and so on) has declined sharply in Germany, according to the DIW Berlin. Read about it here.
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