Question

According to research by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, there has been a _________in the mortality rate among middle-aged white Americans since _______. This is due to both rates of ______and________, the latter of which began to be prescribed in greater numbers beginning in _______ when Purdue Pharma began pushing their product on doctors.

Answer 1

Answer:

increase; 1998/1999; Morbidity; Mortality; 1996

According to research by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, there has been a INCREASE in the mortality rate among middle-aged white Americans since 1998/1999. This is due to both rates of MORBIDITY and MORTALITY, the latter of which began to be prescribed in greater numbers beginning in 1996 when Purdue Pharma began pushing their product on doctors.

Explanation:

Economists Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton carried out a research in 2015 which showed an increase in the mortality rates of Middle aged white Americans between the ages of 45-54 years from 1998/1999 to 2013. The increase in their mortality rates was due to what Anne and Angus both referred to as Deaths of Despair.

The Mortality rates coincided with when Purdue Pharma released an Opioid drug Oxycodone with the name OxyContin in the year 1996. OxyContin was a drug manufactured for chronic pain but reports showed that people were getting addicted to OxyContin and they abused the drug either by inhaling, chewing or injecting the drug directly into their blood stream. This led to deaths caused by drug overdose.

Answer 2

Answer:

Filling in the blanks, the answers respectively are:decline, 2013, morbidity, mortality, 1996

 

Explanation:

Anne Case and Augus Deaton were two American professors who delved into the study of high rates of mortality in America between 1999-2013. They eventually found that the high mortality rate between the middle aged women were mostly as a result of drugs prescription poisoning. The drug in question was one that was highly marketed by Purdue Pharmaceutical company in 1996.