Human Growth and Development / Unit 13 HGD 1837 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Unintentional Injury and Overdose
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The idea
Unintentional injury in midlife includes poisoning, chiefly opioid overdose, crashes, drowning and falls; overdose deaths peak in middle adulthood, according to national data.
In practice
Seat belts cutting crash deaths across decades, a prevention success.
Where people slip
Overdose is a midlife risk as much as a youthful one; SAMHSA's National Helpline is one eight hundred, six six two, HELP.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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