Drug Overdoses Are Depressing the Entire Country's Life Expectancy [psmag.com]
The U.S. has gotten better at saving people with heart disease, cancer, and strokes, but early drug overdose, Alzheimer's, and suicide deaths are increasing. The drug overdose problem has become so severe in the United States, it's now bringing down the country's average life expectancy, according to a new analysis . For more than two decades, Americans' life expectancy had only gone up every year. But while analyzing the data for 2015, scientist Deborah Dowell and her team saw a drop. "It...