2017 saw highest rate of death due to alcohol, drugs, suicide in US history [pdf]
For me, the most useful page of the linked PDF is page 22, the tables of 1999-2015 stats, without any projections. I see numbers from the CDC for general population like:<p><pre><code>    Alcohol deaths per 100,000
    1999  2015  Pct Increase
    7.0   10.3  47%

    Drug deaths per 100,000
    1999  2015  Pct Increase
    6.9   16.3  136%

    Suicide deaths per 100,000
    1999  2015  Pct Increase
    10.5  13.8  31%
</code></pre>
So, devil&#x27;s avocado -- anecdotes aside, is this all just due to the opioid epidemic?<p>Ie, the US is in the middle of a widespread opioid problem right now, and suicide and alcohol use may correlate.<p>I would love to see some tables that compare this specific data across multiple countries over the same time frame, as that could help tease apart how much of this is really fallout from one single problem in the US, the opioid crisis -- and, if not, what factors might be involved (&#x27;are there other countries on a similar track? What do they have in common with the US?&#x27;).<p>I wonder if OurWorldInData might be interested ...<p>Edit: others have posted the link below, with what might be 1 of the 6 sources of data that would be helpful for this comparison: recent global suicide stats by country. (Ideally we&#x27;d have this for all 3 causes, and then also for 1999).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...</a>