I was just linking that as a reference for the declining life expectancy. I don't think they even come close to establishing opioid and suicide deaths as the ca

I was just linking that as a reference for the declining life expectancy. I don't think they even come close to establishing opioid and suicide deaths as the cause, that's just journalistic conjecture. If you look at the number of opioid and suicide related deaths it's very small compared to the total population of the US, so the math just doesn't seem to work out for me. I remember an HN comment a while ago that worked out how many deaths you'd need from those causes to lower the life expectancy as much as we're seeing and it was a lot higher than what we're seeing now. Unfortunately I can't seem to unearth the comment.