Alcohol use, opioid overdose and socioeconomic status in Canada: A threat to life expectancy?

Abstract

KEY POINTS In 2015, Case and Deaton reported that life expectancy for middle-aged, white, non-Hispanic people in the United States had declined in the first decade of the 21st century.[1][1] For the better half of a century before that, life expectancy at birth had increased in both Canada and the