An increase in drug, alcohol and suicide deaths is shortening the life expectancy of people in the state.
A report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows the numbers are up in every county.
Spokesman Mark Sommerhauser says the number of drug deaths nearly quadrupled, between 1999 and 2017. The rate jumped from 4.4 per 100,000 deaths to 20.8 in 2017.
Sommerhauser calls the number of alcohol-related deaths alarming. He says the death rate was about seven per 100,000 in 1999, and it nearly doubled to almost 14 in 2017.
Suicides in Wisconsin rose from about 11 per 100,000 in 1999 to 16 in 2017.
