Comment by Wildliferanger

Well 20 years ago the US drinking culture and driving culture made car accidents a main driver especially in distorting the lower age demograpics. But in the past few years opiods is basically the top cause of death of adults before 45 which then is mostly heart disease. So the recent drop is almost entirely opiods. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/16umz...