A recent analysis from Well Being Trust, a national public health foundation, predicted as many as 75,000 people might die from suicide, overdose or alcohol abuse,
Long-term, research by the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care and the Well Being Trust found that as many
“People lose their jobs and they lose their sense of purpose and become despondent, and you sometimes see them lose their lives,” says Benjamin Miller, Well
According to Well Being Trust, the number of additional deaths attributable to COVID-19, as a result of deaths of despair, could be as high as
But there’s a cost to not socializing, too, as the psychologist Ben Miller of the nonprofit Well Being Trust reports there’s an “epidemic within the coronavirus
Nearly half of people who are sheltering in place said that the pandemic has increased their stress or worry, according to a poll from the Kaiser
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