It would be only the second annual decline since the current national drug death epidemic began more than three decades ago.
U.S. overdose deaths declined in 2023 for the first time in five years, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by ...
The number of deaths from drug overdose fell 3% to 107,543 in 2023 from the previous year, according to preliminary data from ...
More than 100,000 people died of fentanyl and other drugs in 2023, but Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, and Maine all recorded ...
New provisional CDC data published Wednesday shows drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell from 2022 to 2023, marking the first ...
Medetomidine - a powerful animal tranquilizer used on dogs and cats - is thought to be behind a spate of drug overdose deaths ...
The number of deadly drug overdoses in the U.S. dropped for the first time in five years. However the ongoing crisis still ...
Powerful synthetic opioids and drugs like meth and cocaine still flood U.S. communities, fueling historically high overdose ...
Drug overdose deaths in Arkansas fell last year for the second year in a row, although the number remained above pre-pandemic ...
Declines are not spread equally everywhere -- some states experienced another year of increases of fatal ODs. HealthDay News — New 2023 provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics ...
WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data ...
About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in ...