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US Life Expectancy Drops Because of Opioid Abuse

מאמר באנגלית לתרגול קריאה. כולל 5 מילים חדשות עם תרגום לעברית, 3 שאלות הבנת הנקרא, 5 שאלות לשיחה. מתאים לרמה בינונית.

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For the second year in a row life expectancy in the United States has decreased. One of the main reasons is the rise in opioid-related deaths, especially among young adults.

Life expectancy in 2016 was 78.6 years, compared with 78.4 years two years earlier. It is the first two-year decline in over 50 years. While life expectancy in other parts of the world is going up, the average American is dying at an earlier age.

According to a recently published report, overdoses of painkillers and other opioids are causing more and more premature deaths. The figures have risen from 6.1 per 100,000 people in 1999 to 21 per 100,000 people in 2016.

Last year 63 000 people died from some form of a drug overdose. While 15000 of them were heroin addicts an alarming 14000 died from other painkillers. Most of them were in the 28-54 year age group.

In many cases, drug abuse is caused by a general dissatisfaction with a person's personal situation. This results in depression and hopelessness if addicts don't have a family to support them. Such victims don't have the stability that they need. As a consequence, they turn to alcohol and drugs.

Opioids are drugs that reduce pain by targeting pain receptors in the brain. You need a doctor's prescription to get them, but more and more people are buying them illegally on the streets.

While many start out with painkilling drugs, they later turn to heroin, also an opioid. In the terminal stages of cancer, morphine is often used to reduce a patient's pain.

מילים חדשות מהטקסט

  • Opioids /oʊpiɔɪds/ noun אופיואידים

    a drug that acts on the nervous system to reduce pain

    Doctors are now being discouraged from prescribing opioids.

  • Overdose /ˈoʊvərˌdoʊs/ adjective מנת יתר

    to take too much of a drug at one time

    She’d taken a massive overdose of sleeping pills.

  • Premature /ˌpriməˈtjʊr/ adjective מוקדם מדי

    when something happens before the natural time

    Alcohol is responsible for thousands of premature deaths each year.

  • Prescription /prɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ noun מִרשָׁם

    piece of paper that a doctor writes so that an ill person can get medicine

    The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics.

  • Receptors /rɪˈseptərs/ noun קולטנים

    a nerve ending that gets information and causes the body to react in a special way

    The retina of the octopus has up to 20 million light receptors.

שאלות לשיחה

אין כאן תשובה נכונה — אלה שאלות לתרגול דיבור, לבד או מול מורה.

  1. When was the last time you buy a pain killer? Why?
  2. Would you ever buy medicine online?
  3. What do you know about sleeping pills? Have you taken them before?
  4. Do you think that one day; there’ll be medicine to cure all illnesses?
  5. Have you ever thought about taking opioid?

בדקו את עצמכם

3 שאלות. בחרו תשובה וקבלו בדיקה מיד.

  1. What is the article mainly about?

  2. What is the common reason of premature deaths?

  3. Prescription infers that

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