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by usaar333 356 days ago
At best about half. Compared to UK, roughly other half of gap is drug overdoses, car crashes and firearm deaths

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/americans-die-younger-than...

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58% of firearm deaths in the US are suicide. It could be argued a percentage of drug overdoses are as well. While 5-7% of ODs are classified as suicide, even slower drawn out drug addictions leading to OD could be considered it as many use drugs to dull the pain of daily living. We Americans are deeply unhappy. Something is very very broken here.