WASHINGTON, – Drug overdoses have driven the first significant reduction in US life expectancy since the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, an official report published Wednesday showed. Americans have lost almost four months of longevity since 2014, the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. “This is the first big drop since 1993, and the main driver behind that was the HIV epidemic,” Renee Gindi, a health statistician for the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics told AFP. An American born in 2017 can expect to … Continue reading Drug overdoses driving down US life expectancy: health officials