Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorders Found Common Among Individuals Who Die Suddenly

More than half of individuals living in a large metropolitan county in North Carolina who died suddenly outside the hospital had at least one diagnosed mental illness or substance use disorder in the previous five years, and more than one-third had two or more, according to a report in Psychiatric Services in Advance. Among those with mental and/or substance use disorders, cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic conditions were common, wrote Jessica[…]