U.S. life expectancy drops as opioid deaths surge
December 21, 2017 by Dennis Thompson, Healthday Reporter
(HealthDay)—The opioid epidemic continues to chip away at the average American life span, federal health officials reported Thursday.
Life expectancy declined in the United States for the second year in a row in 2016, driven downward by fatal drug overdoses in young and middle-aged adults, according to a new report from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
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