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 CDCs 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 years 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.
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redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)WE know how to protest their crazy stuff.
LudwigPastorius
(8,944 posts)No worries, though.
It's nothing another round of corporate tax cuts can't fix!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)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.
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Upward
(115 posts)would guess, a good number.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)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.
Welcome to DU!
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)the life expectancy of transgendered people or a fetus were mentioned.
Loserman1962
(17 posts)"According to the CDCs 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)What's too bad is that it will include those hurt by Pussy Grabber's attacks on our healthcare system.