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by evgen 1859 days ago
Do you have sources other than known right-wing advocacy groups for these claims?

As a simple example the FEE article is nothing but random anecdotes, while the NR article does not have supporting data for the headline claim but tries to play a similar game by suggesting that opioid overdose deaths should be categorized as either suicides or suicide attempts. Articles attempting to manufacture a suicide problem related to the lockdown also tend to mix in 'suicide ideation' with suicide attempts, usually while ignoring the fact that surveys of such ideation have almost no depth to them and seem to be a recent invention to try to answer the undeniable fact that actual suicides have decreased.

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>known right-wing advocacy groups

Known to who? Do you have a list of approved sources we are allowed to use and are not sharing?

Both sources provided are not news organizations, they are agenda-driven opinion peddlers. It is not hard to figure this out.