The story here is really the most cartoonish version also seems not that far from being the accurate one

Which is like big pharmaceutical interests essentially like

corruptly rigged a system to

Jack up their profits by essentially

Distributing poison across America leading to hundreds of thousands of people's deaths

Yep, that's what happened and when faced with evidence that they were

Underplaying the risks and overselling the efficacy

You know, they just doubled down on the marketing

Hello and welcome to wise is happening with me your host Chris Hayes

Well, I'm gonna start off today with some good news which I don't think I do enough. I realize that I'm

People some buzzers will tell me about the podcast like I love it, but it's kind of dark and heavy and I'm like is it?

I don't know doesn't feel that way to me, but it is of course. I'm drawn to the darkness

What can I say some good news?

Which is that for the first time in four years US life expectancy rose we think it looks like in I think

2018 is the data so there's a bit of a lag now it rose very very marginally and it comes at the end of this period that we've discussed on the show of

declining life expectancy in a developed first world

Democracy that is not at war and not in the midst of an epidemic like AIDS it makes no sense like it just shouldn't be happening

It's a real warning side in the society where you see life expectancy go down and

One of the biggest drivers not solely but the big drivers what's called deaths of despair

Which is people drinking themselves to death suicide and opioid overdoses and

opioid overdoses declined by enough to kind of increase life expectancy by a month

So that's a very small marginal change, but it's good news and it suggests that at the local level people have been

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