U.S. life expectancy falls, driven by suicides and drug overdoses

[Afro]

U.S. life expectancy falls, driven by suicides and drug overdoses

The CDC blamed the change on drug overdoses and suicides, which reached new highs in 2017.

In 2017, the rate of drug overdose deaths was 9.6 percent higher than in 2016, with 70,237 people dying from drug overdoses, many of them from the epidemic of opioid abuse.

Meanwhile, the suicide rate has increased a massive 33 percent since 1999, the CDC said. There are now 14 suicides per 100,000 people, up from 10.5 in 1999.

CDC - NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics

 

[Canada Goose]

IDK about that Drug Overdose stuff, but I can see why suicide increasing.


Social Media, loniness, low wages, etc, life sucks

 

[ultraflexed]

Only the strong servive...

 

[KING WILL]

I understand how AVG's work, so Im not question the math of it.

I guess Im kind of questioning the "expectancy" part of it.

Like if there was a massive failure of the health care system, I would "expect" people, as a whole to not live as long.

If there was an outbreak of some crazy ass virus that we couldn't contain in time, I would "expect" people as a whole to not live as long.

I "expect" the longevity of life to continue as normal for most people, if even a few more thousand people are killing themselves each year.

Some will get what Im trying to say, others will not...

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

IDK about that Drug Overdose stuff, but I can see why suicide increasing.


Social Media, loniness, low wages, etc, life sucks

Average folk (not the top 10%) could do a lot to make life easier for each other but everybody want to stunt on each other and nobody wants to stay in their lane.

 

[Rockstar Mom]

So what’s the new life expectancy? It was 80, now it’s what?

 

[Paper Boi]

real talk, baby boomers failed their kids.

especially the white ones.

 

[Serious]

So what’s the new life expectancy? It was 80, now it’s what?

It's at like 79.87

 

[hatealot]

this due to military and heroin/dope.

 

[Rockstar Mom]

It's at like 79.87

Article made it sound like it dropped to 50.

 

[Wild self]

real talk, baby boomers failed their kids.

especially the white ones.

Jacked up the cost of living to the point where people with Masters Degrees living in poverty with people having GEDs.

 

[Ake1725]

Article made it sound like it dropped to 50.

 

[Dorian Breh]

I understand how AVG's work, so Im not question the math of it.

I guess Im kind of questioning the "expectancy" part of it.

Like if there was a massive failure of the health care system, I would "expect" people, as a whole to not live as long.

If there was an outbreak of some crazy ass virus that we couldn't contain in time, I would "expect" people as a whole to not live as long.

I "expect" the longevity of life to continue as normal for most people, if even a few more thousand people are killing themselves each year.

Some will get what Im trying to say, others will not...

Truth. Life expectancy should only apply to natural deaths

 

[You Win Perfect]

IDK about that Drug Overdose stuff, but I can see why suicide increasing.


Social Media, loniness, low wages, etc, life sucks

replace all that with "being white and suffering from genetic annihilation"

 

[Serious]

Article made it sound like it dropped to 50.

click bait material
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