TenEleven Blog Opioid Deaths Climbing as Life Expectancy Diminishes

The life expectancy for citizens of the U.S has decreased again and left many searching for answers. This is the third year in a row that such a decrease has occurred and should be a cause for concern. The data continues the longest sustained decline in expected life span at birth in a century, a performance not seen in the United States since 1915 through 1918. That four-year period included World War I and a flu pandemic that killed 675,000 people in the United States and perhaps 50 million worldwide.