Chronic Pain Is the Cause of Death of Disdain

The biggest predictors of having chronic pain are being rural, white and non-college educated which are also the strongest factors predicting who experiences death of despair. And there's like a pretty clear causal connection between being in a lot of pain and you know turning to alcohol or drugs. So I'm quite sympathetic to what you say I think that pain is a big factor in driving people to deaths of despair.