On: Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county

[superkuh]

It's really remarkable how well the USA has done in drastically decreasing the total number of childhood deaths the last 50 years. It's depressing that the remaining statistical noise for a population of ~75 million kids can so dominate the news and public consciousness as if there were net increases in the per population rates.

[yawnr → superkuh]

The statistical noise of opioid deaths is the depressing part?

[macintux → superkuh]

I would have some vague sympathy for your argument were it not for the fact that death is far from the only negative consequence.

Opioid addiction is a lifelong curse.

[lostlogin → superkuh]

For anyone interested, here is how the US has done. Not great since 2000, pretty great before that. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infa...

[superkuh → lostlogin]

Infant mortality is pretty good too, yes. But I was using the entire 0-18 year old range of US citizens. And now that we're down to just a trickle of preventable childhood deaths the relative proportion of deaths to drug overdoses and firearms is higher but even those per capita numbers are significantly lower than the ~1960s.