Opioid deaths, suicide drive down life expectancy

Life expectancy rates in the United States declined for the third year in a row as gains from heart disease and cancer treatment advances flattened and drug overdose and suicide rates rose. The average American can now expect to live 78.6 years, down from 78.7 years in 2016, according to the report from the National Center for Health Statistics. “Life expectancy gives us a snapshot of the nation’s overall health and these sobering statistics are a wakeup call that we are losin g too many Americans,…
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