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8 Well Being Trust | Annual Report | Year One Highlights I N 2 0 1 5 D R U G S O p i o i d s ' g r i m t o l l A L C O H O L A n e s c a l a t i n g c r i s i s S U I C I D E S R i s k s — a n d r a t e s — g r o w More than 1 million people have died from drugs, alcohol and suicide over the past decade. If these trends continue, the death rate could grow to claim 1.6 million more lives by 2025. 127,500 People died from drugs, alcohol and suicide 52,400 Number of drug deaths in 2015, nearly triple what they were in 2000. 286% 33,200 Number of alcohol-induced deaths in 2015, a 35-year high. 37% 44,000 Number of suicides in 2015. 40% 192,000 Projected annual deaths from drugs, alcohol and suicide 5 states Had death rates above 60 per 100K people 26 states Projected to reach 60 deaths per 100K people I N 2 0 2 5 * Visit PainInTheNation.org THESE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING, TRAGIC — AND PREVENTABLE. — John Auerbach, president and CEO of TFAH YEAR ONE HIGHLIGHTS INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES We supported the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in creating a learning collaborative of nine leading health systems to pursue innovative strategies to address the needs of individuals with mental health and substance misuse issues seeking care in emergency departments. This clinical transformation initiative also goes "upstream" to tackle the underlying reasons patients are unable to access the care they need in the community long before they arrive in an emergency department. PAIN IN THE NATION REPORT With the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America's Health, we co-funded and released the seminal 2017 report Pain in the Nation on "deaths of despair" in America. The report presented 60 evidence-based policy and advocacy strategies to help decrease deaths due to alcohol, drugs and suicide and called for a national resilience strategy. In our first year, Well Being Trust invested over $15.5 million in 36 initiatives and created over three dozen new partnerships addressing clinical and community transformation, policy and advocacy, social engagement, and measurement and data systems. Following are a few examples.