It would be only the second annual decline since the current national drug death epidemic began more than three decades ago.
After a steep rise during the Covid-19 pandemic, preliminary data shows that drug overdose deaths in the United States ticked ...
Preliminary numbers show a nearly 4 percent decrease in deaths from opioids, largely fentanyl, but a rise in deaths from meth ...
(Reuters) - The number of deaths from drug overdose fell 3% to 107,543 in 2023 from the previous year, according to ...
Powerful synthetic opioids and drugs like meth and cocaine still flood U.S. communities, fueling historically high overdose ...
Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting the strategy of increasing access to the life-saving ...
"Any decline is encouraging," said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University researcher who studies overdose trends. "But I think it's certainly premature to celebrate or to draw any large-scale ...
The relentless rise in deaths from drug overdose in the United States may finally have stalled: New data from 2023 show the first decline in such deaths since 2018. "Statistics indicate there were ...
WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted Wednesday. Agency officials noted the data is provisional and could ...