The prevalence of drug overdoses and homicides is helping drive down life expectancy in the nation’s sixth largest city as premature deaths have been rising since 2015
Trina Singleton’s son died a day before his 25th birthday, gunned down on the same day 10 people were shot in Philadelphia.
Elise Schiller’s daughter died of a heroin overdose at the treatment center where she had gone to seek help breaking her addiction.
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