but i would follow up on david weir's comment and there's more here than just opioids at hand. you're seeing the stagnation around mortality and other causes as well. >> yes, stay with us. when political reporters come back from the field, with stories of white anger and alienation and loss and painful yearning, does it mesh with what we're seeing in the numbers? the american way of death. stay with us, it's "inside story." "inside story." >> welcome do "inside story," i'm ray suarez. the mortality rate for middle-aged whites fell, and fell substantially from 1978 to 1998. starting in 1999, something curious happened, those gains changed direction for whites with a high school diploma or less. for the first does years in the new century, their mortality rates rose by a shocking 22%. yes, we had a terribly destructive recession, and whites with less education suffered worse than their peers with education, but hispanics and blacks didn't see similar increases in death rates. my guests are still with me, and dr. chinni, when you see a lot of journalism, and there has been a ton o