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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 03:03 PM Dec 2017

CDC: Life Expectancy In US Declines For Second Year In A Row

Source: Associated Press




By ESME CRIBB and Associated Press Published DECEMBER 21, 2017 11:34 AM

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday reported that the life expectancy in the U.S. decreased in 2016 for the second year in a row.

According to the CDC’s 2016 mortality report, the life expectancy for a member of the U.S. population born in 2016 was 78.6 years, down 0.1 years from the expectancy for a person born in 2015, itself a decline from 2014.

The government figures released Thursday put drug deaths at 63,600, up from about 52,000 in 2015. For the first time, the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins played a bigger role in the deaths than any other legal or illegal drug, surpassing prescription pain pills and heroin.”This is urgent and deadly,” said Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The opioid epidemic “clearly has a huge impact on our entire society.”

Two-thirds of last year’s drug deaths — about 42,000 — involved opioids, a category that includes heroin, methadone, prescription pain pills like OxyContin, and fentanyl. Fatal overdoses that involved fentanyl and fentanyl-like drugs doubled in one year, to more than 19,000, mostly from illegally made pills or powder, which is often mixed with heroin or other drugs.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cdc-us-population-life-expectancy-declines-second-year-in-a-row

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CDC: Life Expectancy In US Declines For Second Year In A Row (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP
They want all of us old baby boomer so die off. redstatebluegirl Dec 2017 #1
"Winning" LudwigPastorius Dec 2017 #2
This will only get much worse. KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2017 #3
I Was Wondering How Many Drug Related Deaths Were Actually Suicides Upward Dec 2017 #6
Probably impossible to tell. KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2017 #7
I trust this was not a science-based or evidence-based report and that no info about ET Awful Dec 2017 #4
Sorry but tis report is dumb and impossible to calculate. Loserman1962 Dec 2017 #5
As long as it's Trump supporters' lives that are shortened, I don't give a fat shit. BigDemVoter Dec 2017 #8

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
3. This will only get much worse.
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 05:04 PM
Dec 2017

Due to a number of factors (feel free to add to my list):
1. Deaths due to increasing crime caused by rising poverty and emotional stress.
2. More heart related deaths along with suicides due to a more divided and economically stressed society.
3. Reduced support for healthcare in general, and particularly for women, children and the poor.
4. Rising healthcare costs and insurance premium increases, resulting in less preventative care.
5. Increases in job-related deaths due to deregulation of workplace safety rules.
6. Increases in pollution-related deaths due to deregulation of the EPA.
7. More deaths due to natural disasters cause by defunding of emergency support systems (see Puerto Rico).
8. More drug-related deaths due to defunding of our already inadequate prevention and recovery systems now in place.

And, the voices of most of those dying will not be heard.

....... ........

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,483 posts)
7. Probably impossible to tell.
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 12:07 AM
Dec 2017

In my experience with addicts, the raging addiction does not allow them to think about what they're doing regarding drug strength/purity, or cleanliness of needles, dosage, etc. and many die due to those variables. The dealers don't give a damn either.

Unless one left a suicide note or message, there's no way to tell the difference between suicides and careless users.

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ET Awful

(24,753 posts)
4. I trust this was not a science-based or evidence-based report and that no info about
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 05:37 PM
Dec 2017

the life expectancy of transgendered people or a fetus were mentioned.

Loserman1962

(17 posts)
5. Sorry but tis report is dumb and impossible to calculate.
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 05:46 PM
Dec 2017

"According to the CDC’s 2016 mortality report, the life expectancy for a member of the U.S. population born in 2016 was 78.6 years, down 0.1 years from the expectancy for a person born in 2015, itself a decline from 2014."


Utter BS


Hell we will hit the singularity before these people die

BigDemVoter

(4,149 posts)
8. As long as it's Trump supporters' lives that are shortened, I don't give a fat shit.
Fri Dec 22, 2017, 01:11 AM
Dec 2017

What's too bad is that it will include those hurt by Pussy Grabber's attacks on our healthcare system.

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