It spends more money per citizen on healthcare than any other country and it's also the world biggest economy, so why is life expectancy on the decline in the U.S.? (via CNBCi)
While there's no single cause for the decline in the U.S., a report by the CDC highlights three factors contributing to the decline.In 2017, more than 70,000 deaths occurred because of drug overdoses. Opioids were involved in more than 47,000 of those.When the CDC analyzed data from emergency room visits, it found that opioid overdoses went up a whopping 30% in the U.S. from July 2016 and September 2017.
Opioids continue to be prescribed at triple the amount they were in 1999, but many are hoping to change that. The federal government has spent more than $2.4 billion in state grants since 2017 in a bid to curb the epidemic.An increase in liver diseaseamong men aged 25 to 34 increased by nearly 8% per year, while women in the same age group increased more than 11% per year.
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