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mental and behavioral health

Spousal Loss Linked to Higher Risk of Dementia, Mortality among Men, but Not Women

February 27, 2026

health inequities

Official US Records Underestimate Native American Deaths and Life Expectancy

June 16, 2025

Featured

Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Are Driving the Increase in US Excess Mortality—and Adults Without College Degrees Are Bearing Most of the Burden

June 13, 2025

strategic direction

US Excess Deaths Continued to Rise Even After the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 23, 2025

drugs

Young Adults Are Dying Earlier Than Expected

February 13, 2025

A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."

overdose prevention

One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024

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covid-19

The Missing Americans: Unprecedented US Mortality Far Exceeds Other Wealthy Nations

July 14, 2023

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mortality

States with High COVID-19 Death Rates Also Saw High Mortality from other Causes

March 10, 2023

Viewpoint

COVID-19 Deaths in the US Continue to Be Undercounted, Research Shows, Despite Claims of ‘Overcounts’

January 25, 2023

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Coronavirus

US COVID Deaths May Be Undercounted by 36 Percent

October 28, 2020