September 24 life expectancy 

The highest cause of death for people under 50 is ….. overdose .The US is in the midst of a major epidemic. Opioids have become a scourge that is on the verge of crisis . In 2016 an incredible 60000 plus people died of overdose . Think the population of Mornington and double it . It’s so bad that several states have made it mandatory that schools are equipped with nalaxone .Nalaxone is used to revive overdose patients. It’s a terrible state when you have kids overdosing in school grounds , but this is America, and the things that shock us in Australia has become desensitised here. It definitely starts with their tendency to be loose with prescription pills . In Ohio there was 8 pills prescribed for every person in the state in one year . We’re not talking panadol , it’s OxyContin, codeine and a host of others.People ,mainly young adults quickly become addicted , the price becomes too high and then they take the cheap alternative , heroin . It’s not just heroin ,it’s the synthetic drugs on the dark web, like fentanyl. Fentanyl can be 100 times more powerful than morphine . The death rate escalated so fast that the US’s life expectancy actually fell by 3 months . Sounds trivial but that is a major hiccup when you look at the climbing life expectancy in the western world .I always thought the big one was cocaine, and then meth but now it’s fentanyl and friends that have taken over .Drugs are easy to get in Australia but over here you’ve got a big population with a liberal attitude .  The most common cause of death under 50 ….. overdose . Incredible.