Opioid Overdose Deaths One Reason for Decline in US Life Expectancy

For decades, U.S. life expectancy has been rising.   In 1950, most Americans could expect to celebrate their 68th birthday. In 2014, most Americans could expect to celebrate their 78th, and live at least another 10 months beyond that.  But in 2015 life expectancy dipped by a month, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which tracks these things. The last time the CDC saw a decline in 1993 due to the AIDS epidemic in the United...

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