#Drug use leads to #suicide surge among white women in #US & across the world 

#NewYark : The availability of painkillers has contributed to a sharp rise in the number of white American women dying youngCorbis

A sharp increase in suicides and deaths caused by substance abuse has cut the life expectancy of white women in America.

According to a government report, lifespans for white American women fell between 2013 and 2014 by about five weeks, from 81.2 years to 81.1 years. All other groups of US women and other country women  increased their life expectancy.

An analysis of death records by The Washington Post suggested that rural communities were worst affected. In some rural regions the death rate among white women in their forties had risen by 30 per cent. In some places, it had doubled. The data extends by Agencies,