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Recent declines are largely attributable to opioids. After that, suicides and alcohol are major contributors. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/20
by brownbat 8y ago
Recent declines are largely attributable to opioids.
After that, suicides and alcohol are major contributors.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/20/16338996/drug-overdoses-life-expectancy https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/20/16338996/dr...
But yeah, the opioid epidemic is so large it's noticeably shifting overall mortality stats.
Obesity related mortality actually improved from 2000 to 2015, though possibly as a result of better interventions, I'm not sure.
- dv_dt 8y agoI sort of feel like the contributors are a cluster of symptomatic problems all rooted in inequality, from lack of universal healthcare, to more people in prison than any nation (where prisoners then get substandard health care), to underfunding of wages to an increasing underclass. It seems we have this storm of rising problems in the US.