Suicides, opioid overdose deaths push US life expectancy lower

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Average U.S. life expectancy fell in 2017 as suicide and drug overdose rates continue to rise, according to government reports.

 

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Those are Percocet 10mg ;)

Absolutely terrible, and even worse that the Democrats will just cause this drug epidemic to skyrocket even more now with their policies of allowing people to get high in tax funded facilities.

Thank goodness Trump was elected POTUS so he could fix this on Day 1. snark

This is horrible. Now with this kind of epidemic does it make sense to legalize cannabis? No it doesn't because the THC in it sticks to your brain. It's a grumpy resin leading to disorders & can cause hallucinations leading to suicide. It's a gate way drug.

Yeah...we little progress promote alcohol and drug use as ways to get away from stress and the harshness of life instead of focusing on better well-being and mental health.

So much for privilege

Oh but our vaccines and medical treatments will have us living longer and longer!! Wake up ppl 75% of medical field is about making cash.

You forgot to mention the 1 factor: chronic stress caused by POTUS

Nothing new, if the president doesn’t believe 1600 pages talking about climate change why would mental health matters

The photo of prescription drugs is a complete misrepresentation of the opiod crisis. DEA and FDA halted that misuse. Unfortunately, the cheaper, more powerful, far more dangerous street-drugs Heroin and fentanyl backfilled their adsence...making the crisis 5x worse.

But the GOP says we have the best healthcare system in the world. Remember?...... Remember?

Clearly, we're going the wrong way.

With climate change only giving the world another 100 or so livable years this seems like a blessing.

Now add marijuana to the mix.

Obama did want to fundamentally transform America during his 8 years in office.

The American people who aren't over medicated & under educated need to wake up & charge Big PHARMA Big OIL & Big TOBACCO with corporate terrorism. Don't Americans know the war on drugs & the war on terror is really the war on you?

Yes

Hey Democrats, go ahead and keep focusing on gun control as drug overdose rates skyrocket with little action being done to contain them.

Hey the country does nothing regarding mental health. We need sanitariums again. There are people that need help and can not get it or refuse to accept it.

We need to address This! It's painfully ironic that these rates are So high in a land where 1 is free to be Anything they want!

Thanks Kellyanne

Don't forget to add to the list the leftist agenda on abortion...

How much of this can be attributed to the government chaos, in the time of Trump?

We need to beat this

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