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brightlocks t1_jefavwk wrote

Can someone tell me how Connecticut and Rhode Island are ranking high in unintentional injuries? Is it just Woonsocket?

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DMala t1_jeffjer wrote

Three of the five are New England, which is shocking. I’d expect it to be western states with lots of wide, high speed roads or ones with lots of heavy industry.

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brightlocks t1_jefgio9 wrote

It might be fishing? I’m really curious!

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DMala t1_jefiyls wrote

I thought that too, but I’d think the industry is too small to have a big impact overall. Plus, if that were the case you’d expect MA to be higher. Places like New Bedford and Gloucester are much bigger commercial ports than anything in CT or RI as far as I know.

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brightlocks t1_jefo36l wrote

OMG I just spent 15 minutes figuring it out - it’s overdoses. I knew it was bad, but didn’t realize how bad.

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DMala t1_jefpdfa wrote

Ugh, that makes sense. It’s horrible, but it makes sense.

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oscar-scout t1_jegker8 wrote

Overdoses have to be a big factor in the "unintentional injuries" bucket. No one talks about it enough but CT has a series overdose pandemic going on, in particular, New Haven county. Most of these people go unnoticed or are estranged with their family so there are rarely any media stories on them. The big factor is the esplosion of fentanyl. Fentanyl is the real pandemic out there.

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supercrooky t1_jefobd9 wrote

The "ranking" is dumb, it's by proportion of early deaths in the state due to accidents, rather than the more informative early death rate due to accidents.

A state can have a high percentage here due to accidents being high and other death rates being more average, or by having an average number of accidents and other death rates being low. West Virginia is the former, Connecticut is the latter.

This is pretty typical amateur hour mistake from someone making blogspam infographics.

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