As the United States continues to face a devastating opioid epidemic, new data released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals the toll it has taken helped push down life expectancy in the country in yet another consecutive year.
In addition to drug-overdose deaths, a spike in suicides contributed to the grim trend in 2017, the year for which the data were collected.
The third consecutive annual dip is the longest such trend since 1915-1918, when the country braved World War I and a flu pandemic.
“Life expectancy gives us a snapshot of the nation’s overall health, and these sobering statistics are a wake-up call that we are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable,” CDC director Robert Redfield said of the report.
The US is the only country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with a declining life expectancy or rising suicide rate.
Very sobering. For 3rd year in a row, #US life expectancy declined. The only @OECD country with any declining LE, or rising rate of suicide. Data from @CDCgov pic.twitter.com/YwcJ7TIZBW
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 29, 2018
The American life expectancy will continue to drop because more and more people will be exposed to toxic things through air, water & food because of the recent actions of their government to start more coal mining and deregulating any controls over fresh air and water. Increased druguse and higher suicide rate also will contribute as shown here. More & more money is not the answer.
The American life expectancy will continue to drop because more and more people will be exposed to toxic things through air, water & food because of the recent actions of their government to start more coal mining and deregulating any controls over fresh air and water. Increased druguse and higher suicide rate also will contribute as shown here. More & more money is not the answer.
70,000 PLUS DEATH LAST YR IN THE US FROM DRUG S.I’M A EUGENICIST,LET THEM KILL THEMDELVES THEY ARE WEAK SELF INDULGENT NON CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SOCIETY MOST ARE RECIEVING WELLFARE AND PARENTS THAT SUPPORT THEM. USELESS WEAK EATERS!! DONT BE FOOLED BY THE MEDIA AND GOEVERNMENT .THE WHOLE IDEA IS TO TAKE AWAY MORE FREEDOMS BY PUTTING STRICTER LAWS IN PLACE AN ALREADY POLICE STATE.
70,000 PLUS DEATH LAST YR IN THE US FROM DRUG S.I’M A EUGENICIST,LET THEM KILL THEMDELVES THEY ARE WEAK SELF INDULGENT NON CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SOCIETY MOST ARE RECIEVING WELLFARE AND PARENTS THAT SUPPORT THEM. USELESS WEAK EATERS!! DONT BE FOOLED BY THE MEDIA AND GOEVERNMENT .THE WHOLE IDEA IS TO TAKE AWAY MORE FREEDOMS BY PUTTING STRICTER LAWS IN PLACE AN ALREADY POLICE STATE.