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Drug overdose deaths in the United States made an unprecedented drop to the lowest they’ve been in five years, according to a new federal government estimate released Wednesday. During the Covid-19 ...

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Deaths from drug overdoses dropped 27% in 2024, the largest one-year decline on record, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Nearly 30,000 fewer people died from overdoses, ...

Drug overdose is the number one cause of accidental death in Connecticut, where someone is more likely to die from a drug overdose than from a car accident. The investigators examined data of over ...

While the U.S. has recently seen a welcome downturn in drug overdose deaths, a new study from Northwestern Medicine is the first to pinpoint when the tide began to turn—identifying August 2023 as the ...

The U.S. addiction crisis is evolving in ways that experts say are both hopeful and incredibly dangerous. The good news is that fatal overdoses from fentanyl and other street drugs keep dropping. But ...

Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...

The number of people who died last year in Massachusetts from drug overdoses plummeted to the lowest level in more than a decade, the most promising sign yet that the state is making progress against ...

The number of Americans who died from overdoses of drugs like fentanyl and meth dropped nearly 30% last year, falling to a level not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the CDC.