Premature deaths: Average number of years of potential life lost prior to age 75 per 100,000 population
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Six Measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare Now Updated to Include Pandemic-era Data for Health Behaviors and Outcomes
This blog serves as part of SHADAC’s commitment to releasing relevant and timely state-level data. It features information about estimates for six measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool that were recently updated with data from the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021. Data for each of these measures is drawn from a variety of different data sources, which are detailed in the notes.

During the Pandemic, Drug Overdoses Became the Third Leading Cause of Death for U.S. Adolescents
From 2019 to 2022, the rate of fatal drug overdoses among U.S. adolescents (age 13-17) more than doubled — increasing from 1.3 drug overdoses deaths per 100,000 adolescents to 3.2 drug overdose deaths per 100,000 adolescents. With that change, drug overdoses became the third leading cause of death among U.S. adolescents in 2022, following firearm injuries and transportation-related injuries (e.g., automobile collisions).