America’s fragmented mental health system
The data is going in the wrong direction. While life expectancy has been on the rise since the 1960s, its sharp decline over the last several years is a sign that something is fundamentally broken in the United States. It’s 2021, and we are losing more lives to preventable causes then ever before. Death due to drugs, alcohol and suicide are at an all time high, and our country is hurting in ways that are multifaceted--attributable to overlapping issues and circumstances. For some, it may be access to affordable health care.
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