Improving the gene pool: Adolescents and young adults lost more than 1.25M years of life to drug overdose deaths in a 4-year period

When someone young dies from a drug overdose, families not only mourn the loss of their loved one, but also the decades of life that go un-lived.

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A recent study suggests families and friends may be mourning more than a million years of young life lost to overdose deaths in the last several years.

Researchers at The Ohio State University found adolescents and teenagers, ages 10 to 19, cumulatively lost nearly 200,000 years of life due to unintentional drug overdoses from 2015 to 2019, according to the report published in JAMA Pediatrics. When they expanded the study to 10- to 24-year-olds, it grew to more than 1.25 million years lost.

“Counting the number of adolescent deaths doesn’t accurately reflect what we lost when we lose someone so young,” said lead author Dr. O. Trent Hall, an addiction medicine physician at The Ohio State University. “Each one of these years is a year that people didn’t have with their loved one, and it’s important to think of that when we’re prioritizing our public health.”

The study looked at the overdose deaths of more than 21,500 young people between ages 10 and 24 during the 4-year period. Years of life lost is the difference between the age at which a person dies and their expected remaining lifespan. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported U.S. life expectancy was 78.8 years in 2019.

.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/02/04/opioid-epidemic-study-teens-young-adults-lose-1-25-m-years-life/9299371002/

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Improving the gene pool: Adolescents and young adults lost more than 1.25M years of life to drug overdose deaths in a 4-year period

Improving the gene pool: Adolescents and young adults lost more than 1.25M years of life to drug overdose deaths in a 4-year period

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