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Re:The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Ex... by mitchdoogle on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:01AM (#33247263)
This article about life expectancy specifically lists overdose deaths as a major contributor to decreased life expectancy
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Re:The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Ex... by ajross on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:06AM (#33247342)
The comment I was responding to was positing that the covid "excess deaths" statistics (not the same thing as life expectancy measurements) were confounded by fentanyl overdoses. They are not.
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