Summary

A generation of people born in England and Wales in the 1960s and 1970s are dying by suicide and drug poisonings in greater numbers. In the late 1980s there was a shift away from the middle-aged being the age group at which most people died by suicide, to those in their 20s. A similar shift to those in their 20s dying from drug poisonings became visible in the early 1990s.

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• Middle-aged generation most likely to die by suicide and drug poisoning

  Now in their 40s and 50s, the so-called Generation X are dying in greater numbers by suicide or drug poisoning than any other age group.

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