Show Hide Almost 100 people are dying every day across America from opioid overdoses – more than car crashes and shootings combined. In 2015, 16.3 people for every 100,000 living in the US died of a drug overdose. That rate increased by 21% in 2016, when 19.8 people for every 100,000 died of a drug overdose. Women’s life expectancy at birth remained at 81.1 years in 2016, but life expectancy for men declined by 0.2 years, to 76.1 years. Most recently, Donald Trump declared America’s overdose epidemic a public health emergency, but little new funding has materialized.

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2017 04:52 UTC