In Reversal, Death Rates Rise For Middle-Aged Whites

NPR - Continued coverage of comments by Jonathan Skinner, a professor of economics and of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine, who co-authored a commentary accompanying recent research about how suicides and drug overdoses have contributed to a marked increase in the mortality rate for middle-aged white Americans. (Picked up by NHPR, KPBS, KPLU, UPR, WAMU.)