According to research by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, there has been a in the mortality rate among middle-aged white Americans since . This is due to both rates of and, the latter of which began to be prescribed in greater numbers beginning in when Purdue Pharma began pushing their product on doctors.

Filling in the blanks, the answers respectively are:decline, 2013, morbidity, mortality, 1996

Explanation:

Anne Case and Augus Deaton were two American professors who delved into the study of high rates of mortality in America between 1999-2013. They eventually found that the high mortality rate between the middle aged women were mostly as a result of drugs prescription poisoning. The drug in question was one that was highly marketed by Purdue Pharmaceutical company in 1996.

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b and c would be the answers