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by logicchains 981 days ago
>The opioid epidemic isn’t making a dent in the lower life expectancy

That's absolutely false. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034969/ for instance found that in British Columbia from 2014 to 2016, life expectancy declined 0.38 years of which 0.12 years of the decline was due to "mainly opioid-involved" overdoses, i.e. opioids were responsible for around a third of the reduction in life expectancy.