Princeton Scholars: Opioid Crisis Alcoholism Suicide to Blame for Rising White Working Class Mortality Rate
Deaton
Economist Angus Deaton and Princeton University Professor Anne Case  told the Wall Street Journal that the opioid crisis  alcoholism  and suicide continue to aggravate the American white working class mortality rate.
 Dr. Deaton  suggested that the country’s white community split into two camps: white Americans with bachelor’s degrees continue to thrive  while American whites without a bachelor’s degree face increasingly dire circumstances.
I think there are several answers to that. Mortality rates for suicide  for drug overdose  for alcoholism are rising for people without a college degree. Those are the big increases that we’re seeing  and it isn’t just about the financial crisis. This started back as far as we can break out education in death certificates  which is 1990. It has been a slow  steady trend up in all three of those for people without  a B.A.
Deaton  then suggested that one of the reasons that the white working class mortality rate skyrocketed in recent years is that  compared to European countries  America has much looser control over opioids.  Deaton  said:
The two researchers suggested that America’s white working class continues to have their institutions: family  church  and job  disappear. Case and Deaton speculated that white America’s crumbling institutions has led to rising opioid addiction  alcoholism  and suicide.
[TGT]told the Wall Street Journal that the opioid crisis  alcoholism  and suicide continue to aggravate the American white working class mortality rate.
 [TGT]suggested that the country’s white community split into two camps: white Americans with bachelor’s degrees continue to thrive  while American whites without a bachelor’s degree face increasingly dire circumstances.
I think there are several answers to that. Mortality rates for suicide  for drug overdose  for alcoholism are rising for people without a college degree. Those are the big increases that we’re seeing  and it isn’t just about the financial crisis. This started back as far as we can break out education in death certificates  which is 1990. It has been a slow  steady trend up in all three of those for people without  a B.A.
[TGT]then suggested that one of the reasons that the white working class mortality rate skyrocketed in recent years is that  compared to European countries  America has much looser control over opioids.  [TGT]said:
The two researchers suggested that [TGT] white working class continues to have their institutions: family  church  and job  disappear. Case and [TGT] speculated that white America’s crumbling institutions has led to rising opioid addiction  alcoholism  and suicide.