US life expectancy down for second year in a row
 

Big Pharma reducing lifespans in the US :2 cents:

Decline marks first time in half a century that longevity has declined for two years in a row – with drug overdoses ‘the key driver’, researcher says


Life expectancy in the US has declined for the second year in a row as the opioid crisis continues to ravage the nation.

It is the first time in half a century that there have been two consecutive years of declining life expectancy.

Drug overdoses killed 63,600 Americans in 2016, an increase of 21% over the previous year, researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics found.

Americans can now expect to live 78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 years. The US last experienced two years’ decline in a row in 1963, during the height of the tobacco epidemic and amid a wave of flu.

“We do occasionally see a one-year dip, even that doesn’t happen that often, but two years in a row is quite striking,” said Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch with the National Center for Health Statistics. “And the key driver of that is the increase in drug overdose mortality.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-opioid-crisis

Our children will live a harder life than we had.

"Drug overdoses killed 63,600 Americans in 2016"

That's about the same as gun deaths.. time to write opioid usage into the constitution, its the rights of an individual if they want to take drugs none of the fucking Govenments business.



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Opiods are inert matter ... they do not kill people !!!!

people kill people ....

Meanwhile in Russia vodka kills more young people daily than opioids in a years. #ThanksPutin

The closure of fast food restaurants could reverse the curve :2 cents:

Nobody pops pills like Americans...anybody who comes to the USA is blown away by the sheer selection of "pain meds" being sold...

Too many soy lattes going around.

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How is big pharma reducing life spans? It is heroine overdoses that statistically affect average death age.

Even the title, while correct, is somewhat misleading. In reality people are still living longer and life expectancy of non junkies is increasing.

Natural selection.

Poor parents/pouses/siblings of them. Not weakling junkies themselves.

Democrats been shootin lots of peeps :2 cents: :thumbsup

Decline of western civilization = lower life spans. Period.

Once western civilization is eradicated we will be in a new dark ages or worse.

Add the people who die supplying the drugs or caught in the crossfire.

i cunt a4d a lifespan... :(

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