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With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says predicted drug overdose deaths nationwide were down 27% last year ...
HealthDay News — Drug overdose deaths decreased by 26.9 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to provisional data released May 14, 2025, from the National Center for Health Statistics.
Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell nearly 27% in 2024, federal estimates showed on Wednesday, marking the ...
Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States last year to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new ...
U.S. drug overdose deaths fell 27% in 2024, the lowest since 2019, with fentanyl cases sharply down but methamphetamine up, ...
A new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report shows Nevada is one of two states that saw a rise in predicted drug overdose ...
Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...
The increase in deaths in Nevada and South Dakota demonstrates that in some parts of the country, at least, there are still populations that remain highly vulnerable to fatal overdoses.
Compared to 2023, drug overdose deaths dropped in New York by nearly 32 percent in 2024, going closer to pre-pandemic levels, outpacing the nation while doing s ...
Data: CDC; Note: 2024 data is provisional and may be underreported; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Drug overdose deaths in Pennsylvania dropped 31% last year, per preliminary CDC data. Why it matters: Fatal ...