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“Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds.” That headline in Tuesday’s New York Times caused a shock wave.

It seems two researchers, one a Nobel Prize recipient, discovered that white Americans in their 40s and 50s are “committing suicide at an unprecedented rate,” as well as dying from rampant drug abuse. As the Times reported:

Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.

Hit the pause button.

Just two days earlier, Americans were likewise stunned by a “60 Minutes” segment titled “Heroin in the Heartland” chronicling an epidemic of heroin and opioid addiction among white, middle-class, suburban high school students in Columbus, Ohio – and, experts say, throughout the nation.

As CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker explained, heroin dealers connected to Mexican cartels “are making huge profits by expanding to new, lucrative markets: suburbs all across the country,” where they are targeting “a new set of consumers: high school students, college athletes, teachers and professionals.”

Regarding those way-over-prescribed opioids (synthetic morphine-like pain pills), a Columbus nurse told “60 Minutes”: “Last year, three quarters of a billion pain pills were prescribed by doctors in Ohio – nearly 65 pills for every man, woman and child in the state.”

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