Comparison of self-harm or overdose among adolescents and young adults before vs during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario

JG Ray, PC Austin, K Aflaki, A Guttmann… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Self-harm and deaths among adolescents and young adults are notably related
to drug poisonings and suicide. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are …

Investigating similarities and differences in individual reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis

N Geiger, A Gore, CV Squire, SZ Attari - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
How can individuals' responses to the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic be
used to inform constructive responses for climate action? We present an exploratory, mixed …

Foreseeably early deaths in patients with psychiatric disorders: challenges in caring for patients manifesting likely fatal trajectories

J Yager, J Treem, TB Strouse - The Journal of Nervous and …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Patients with psychiatric disorders often have foreshortened lives, attributed both to “natural”
medical and “unnatural” external causes of death such as suicide, homicide, and accident …

Are employment and social integration more strongly associated with deaths of despair than psychological or economic distress?

DA Glei, C Lee, CL Brown, M Weinstein - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
The label “deaths of despair” for rising US mortality related to drugs/alcohol/suicide seems to
implicate emotional distress as the cause. However, a Durkheimian approach would argue …

Prevalence of psychological distress among working-age adults in the United States, 1999–2018

M Daly - American Journal of Public Health, 2022 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To test whether the prevalence of reported psychological distress increased
among working-age adults in the United States between 1999 and 2018. Methods. I …

Defining despair: assessing the multidimensionality of despair and its association with suicidality and substance use in early to middle adulthood

I Gutin, W Copeland, J Godwin, KM Harris… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite considerable scientific interest in documenting growing despair among US adults,
far less attention has been paid to defining despair and identifying appropriate measures …

Tracing the origins of midlife despair: Association of psychopathology during adolescence with a syndrome of despair-related maladies at midlife

GM Brennan, TE Moffitt, A Ambler… - Psychological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
BackgroundMidlife adults are experiencing a crisis of deaths of despair (ie deaths from
suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease). We tested the hypothesis that a …

Perceptions of diseases of despair by members of rural and urban high-prevalence communities: A qualitative study

DR George, B Snyder, LJ Van Scoy… - JAMA Network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Diseases of despair (ie, mortality or morbidity from suicidality, drug abuse, and
alcoholism) were first characterized as increasing in rural White working-class populations …

Incidence and characteristics of nonfatal opioid overdose among youths aged 11 to 24 years by sex

SM Bagley, MJ Gai, JJ Earlywine… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Opioid-related overdose has substantially increased among adolescents and
young adults in recent years. How overdose differs by age and sex among youths and the …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in educational inequalities in all-course mortality and deaths of despair in swedish youths 1990-2018

B Högberg, S Scarpa, S Petersen - SSM-Population Health, 2025 - Elsevier
Bakground Growing educational disparities in mortality due to suicide, drug overdose, or
alcohol-related liver disease–or “deaths of despair”(DoD)–have received increased …