Question

Scholarly interest in this concept spiked in response to a 2015 paper examining "all-cause mortality of middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women." For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this alliterative term that Anne Case and Angus Deaton used to denote deaths caused by economic and social insecurity, like suicides and overdoses.
ANSWER: deaths of despair
[10e] Addiction to this class of drugs causes many deaths of despair. These drugs are exemplified by oxycodone and fentanyl.
ANSWER: opioids [accept opiates; prompt on narcotics; prompt on painkillers or pain relievers or pain medications or pain drugs]
[10m] Deaths of despair are more common among people with low values of this variable. Thomas Piketty coined the term "brahmin left" to describe a political faction with high levels of this variable.
ANSWER: education [or educational attainment or schooling]
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