Drugs Deaths Behind Further Fall in US Life Expectancy

Deaths from drugs overdoses have been blamed for a second consecutive year of falling life expectancy in the United States. It's the first time in half a century that life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row.

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Picture: Pills of the narcotic pain killer Oxycodone. Credit: Getty Images