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Using a pooled cross‐section regression, the study analyzes state‐level data on deaths of despair as a function of population health, economic, and demographic indicators identified in the academic literature. There is an urgent need to identify and address factors associated with suicides and deaths attributed to the use of alcohol, opioids, and other drugs and referred to as deaths of despair. According...