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  2. Prescription drug prices in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The price of a new drug (in most cases) is limited so that the cost of therapy with the new drug is in the range of the costs of therapy with existing drugs in the same therapeutic class. The price of a breakthrough drug is limited to the median of its prices in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Britain, and the United States.

  3. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time

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    Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state. [1] [2] A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people. [3] The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 ...

  4. Suicide in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From 2000 to 2020, more than 800,000 people died by suicide in the United States. Males represented 78.7% of all suicides between 2000 and 2020. [2] In 2022, a record high 49,500 people died by suicide. [7] The 2022 rate was the highest level since 1941, at 14.3 per 100,000 persons. [8]

  5. Health care prices in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Proximate reasons for the differences with other countries include higher prices for the same services (i.e., a higher price per unit) and greater use of healthcare (i.e., more units consumed). Higher administrative costs, higher per-capita income, and less government intervention to drive down prices are deeper causes. [4]

  6. From Alabama to Wyoming: The Cost of Dying Across America - AOL

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    The cost of dying in Connecticut is on the higher end, with the average price of a casket weighing in at $8,985, and the cost of cremation averaging $7,023. If your estate is worth more than $12. ...

  7. Construction workers are dying by suicide at an alarming rate

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    Alarm bells about the high rate of suicide started going off in the construction industry in 2016 when a CDC report showed construction workers had one of the highest rates of suicide by ...

  8. List of countries by suicide rate - Wikipedia

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    Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, [18] a rate among the ten highest in the world. There are ...

  9. Value of life - Wikipedia

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    However, when looking at risk/reward trade-offs that people make with regard to their health, economists often consider the value of a statistical life (VSL). The VSL is very different from the value of an actual life. It is the value placed on changes in the likelihood of death, not the price someone would pay to avoid certain death.