Friday, 31 Jan 2020 07:48 AM MYT
The increase in 2018, the latest year for which data is ready, was marginal: 78.7 years compared to 78.6 years for the year before, but it was enough to arrest a slide that began in 2014.“This has not happened through coincidence, it's happened through causation,” said White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, announcing the figures. “It's owed in large part to a whole of government approach to treat the whole person, led by President Trump.
But that still leaves 2018 as the second-worst year on record, with the rate of overdose deaths around triple what it was in 1999.
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