Opioid crisis creating drop in life expectancy among young adults in U.S. Source: Cox Media Group


The research features findings from two separate observational studies, one pointing to the ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. as a key contributor to recent declines, and another suggesting the declines in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom transcend the opioid epidemic among diverse populations. Only four countries included in the first study of 18 high-income nations - Australia, Japan, Denmark and Norway - showed increasing rates for both men and women in 2015.



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