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U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Amid 'Disturbing' Rise In Overdoses And Suicides [npr.org]

 

For the second time in three years, life expectancy in the U.S. has ticked downward. In three reports issued Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid out a series of statistics that revealed some troubling trend lines — including rapidly increasing rates of death from drug overdoses and suicide.

CDC Director Robert Redfield described the data as "troubling."

"Life expectancy gives us a snapshot of the Nation's overall health and these sobering statistics are a wakeup call that we are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable," he said in a statement released Thursday.

[For more on this story by COLIN DWYER, go to https://www.npr.org/2018/11/29...erdoses-and-suicides]

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