City, University of London, London, UK.
Am J Health Promot. 2023 Jul;37(6):763-765. doi: 10.1177/08901171231177849. Epub 2023 May 18.
In the United States, mortality due to alcohol, opioid overdose, and suicide has increased dramatically in the last decades. These deaths of despair have been the focus of recent and fast-growing literature. Yet little is known about the factors that are involved in despair. This article moves this area of research forward by highlighting the role that physical pain plays in the deaths of despair. This piece critically analyses the link between physical pain, the psychological states that precede pain, and the premature mortality that follows physical pain as well as the bidirectional relationships among these aspects.
在美国，过去几十年中，因酒精、阿片类药物过量和自杀导致的死亡率急剧上升。这些绝望导致的死亡已成为近期快速增长的文献的焦点。然而，人们对导致绝望的因素知之甚少。本文通过强调身体疼痛在绝望死亡中的作用，推动了这一研究领域的发展。本文批判性地分析了身体疼痛、疼痛前的心理状态以及随后的过早死亡之间的联系，以及这些方面之间的双向关系。
