Preliminary numbers show a nearly 4 percent decrease in deaths from opioids, largely fentanyl, but a rise in deaths from meth ...
New provisional CDC data published Wednesday shows drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell from 2022 to 2023, marking the first annual decline in five years.
I couldn’t change him.” A surge in overdoses and deaths from drugs laced with fentanyl over the past decade has been dubbed ...
The "progress over the last 12 months should make us want to reinvigorate our efforts" to reduce drug-related deaths, said CDC chief medical officer Deb Houry. The "leveling of the overdose curve ...
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 ...
There were an estimated 107,543 such deaths in the country in 2023, down three percent compared to the year before -- with the decline driven by a drop in deaths associated with the synthetic ...
NEW YORK -- Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease ... RELATED: DEA tells Congress that getting illegal drugs in US is as easy as calling Uber Eats "If you think about ...
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 ...
FILE - A container of Narcan, a brand name version of the opioid overdose ... overdoses fell in 2023 — for only the second time since the current national epidemic of drug deaths began more ...