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04-11-2018, 03:16 PM
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Re: Should Be in Jail !!
Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped for the second straight year in 2016, which proved the deadliest yet for drug overdose deaths, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For both men and women, life expectancy dropped from 78.7 to 78.6, according to a report from The National Center for Health Statistics, an arm of the CDC. At the same time, the report found drug overdose deaths surged in 2016 by 21 percent, claiming 63,000 lives. The increase is driven primarily by opioids, which claimed 42,249 lives last year, a 28 percent increase over the roughly 33,000 lives lost to opioids in 2015, reports The Washington Post. Opioid overdose made up a staggering 66 percent of all drug overdose deaths in 2016, surpassing the annual number of lives lost to breast cancer. |