Even Healthy-Looking Suburbs Are Dying From Drugs [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/31/1712:00 PM

Full of historic suburban towns on Boston’s outskirts, Essex County, Massachusetts, does not look sick on paper. It is not plagued by obesity, diabetes, or heart disease. Folks get a fair amount of exercise. Most are insured. Judging by social factors that influence health, it should actually be in better-than-average shape: Nearly 38 percent of the population iscollege-educated. Only 11 percent live in poverty.

Yet all is not well in Essex County. Drugs are claiming lives at a growing rate. In 2010, drugs were responsible for the deaths of roughly 11 out of 100,000 people countywide—a rate that nearly tripled to 31 by 2015, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[For more of this story, written by Laura Bliss, go to https://www.citylab.com/politics/2017/03/even-healthy-looking-suburbs-are-dying-from-drugs/521136/]

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