ADDICTION
Drug and Alcohol Deaths is Now Affecting Average American Life Expectancy
When we think of the quality of living in the U.S., our first concept is that our country is healthy, operating well, and with residents who live long, fulfilling lives. Sure we have our fast food and our even faster lifestyles, but we generally conceive the U.S. as being a pretty healthy and “able-bodied” country. It might come as a surprise then that the U.S. national life expectancy has dropped for two years in a row, and it has dropped because of the opiate epidemic.
