View Medicaid Unwinding Resources

View Maternal Health Resources

View Health Equity Resources

Commentary

State Health Compare Data Offer Baseline for Measuring Pandemic’s Impact on Suicide, Drug Overdose Death Rates

This commentary presents data on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting “deaths of despair” caused by suicides, alcohol abuse, and overdoses from opioids and other drugs.

Some experts have warned that the stress of the pandemic itself—as well as from the historic economic downturn and social isolation caused by efforts to reduce person-to-person virus transmission—could exacerbate these already grim public health situations.

SIGN-UP

FOR OUR NEWSLETTER

Sign up to receive short email alerts about new resources.