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Interesting although the conclusion about drugs and suicides being dramatically more pronounced on 45-54 year olds since the mid-1990s seems to be a bit of a reach; the amount of "fattening" of those data on the graph doesn't seem any more pronounced than liver disease and cancer, both of which are concluded as having gotten much less deadly since then. It makes me wonder whether there is some embellishment going on to justify certain conclusions. It's an odd conclusion based in what's shown.

The part about increased rates of dementia / Alzheimer's is spot-on based on what I have experience with. I'm also not the least bit surprised to see that end-of-life care (Medicare) being relatively flat since 2006. Medicare seems to have gotten very stingy about hospice and nursing home coverage lately. Yes, Medicare needs to be closely regulated to avoid cost overruns and abuses but it seems to have gotten miserly in some of the wrong ways and in the wrong places.

All-in-all an interesting article though...