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>It's the opiod crisis

That's an bold statement to make. Canada is also experiencing a historic opiod crisis right now, but their life expectancy is dropping no near as fast as US. Something else is going on.

EDIT: I don't think the parent post should be flagged. The opioid crisis is real and has a noticeable effect on life expectancy. It's just not the whole story, that's all.

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But is Canada doing better at mitigating the damage from the opioid crisis? For example safe injection sites presumably lower the fatality rate of drug addiction quite significantly.

As a Canadian I can tell you, no. This year British Columbia on average has 5 deaths per day from fentanyl OD, rising from 3/day from just 2 years ago.

The majority of deaths are normal people who used contaminated recreational drugs in their home, as oppose to street junkies that are quickly revived by ambulances.

So BC is doing a good job of saving the lives of street junkies? That sounds like successful mitigation to me.

In an ironic way, yes. People who quietly OD in their house die while junkies are quickly noticed by their street pals and revived (and would often fight the paramedic for breaking their high.)

(Apparently it's now 6 deaths/day, up from 5/day in 2021).

I suspect the (grand)parent is flagged because of completely bogus numbers.

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