'She couldn’t see a way out, so she drank more to 'not feel' as she called it.'
USA TODAYYoung adults were more likely than any other age group to die from drugs, alcohol and suicide over the past decade, underscoring the despair Millennials face and the pressure on the health care system to respond to a crisis that shows little sign of abating.
The Millennial generation is typically defined as people born between 1981 and 1996 - so are 23 to 38 years old today - although some definitions include young people born through 2000. They make up about a third of the workforce and the military. When Brittany Rose Hallett of Milton, Wisconsin drank herself to death at 26, her $50,000 student loan debt was"weighing heavy on her mind because it was accruing interest and she couldn’t hold a job to pay it," says her mother, Jenny Hallett. She also couldn't afford health insurance after she aged off her father's health insurance.Dennis Hobb is executive director of the McClendon Center, a mental health services non profit in Washington, D.C.
"When people are ready for treatment you have to get them into treatment right now, you can't wait," says Hobb. The report from the non-profit Commonwealth Fund also looked at drug, alcohol and suicide deaths and found states that expanded Medicaid to all of the lowest income residents were far better positioned to provide the overdose reversing medication naloxone and to make other policy changes to slow the cycle of addiction. These include West Virginia's use of Medicaid to cover costly treatment for babies born addicted.
The ACA covers mental health and addiction services, although some of the plans the Trump administration exempted from the health law may not, says Blumenthal.Alcohol is killing more people, and younger. The biggest increases are among womenPreteen suicides are rare, but numbers are on the rise.
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