US life expectancy drops again as overdoses climb
Kerry SHERIDAN
,AFP•November 29, 2018
Tampa (AFP) - Life expectancy in the United States dropped yet again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb -- taking more than 70,000 lives in 2017 -- and suicides rose, a US government report said Thursday.
The drug overdose rate rose 9.6 percent compared to 2016, while suicides climbed 3.7 percent, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.
As a result, the average life span in America dropped to "78.6 years, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2016," said the report.
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