There were an estimated 107,543 such deaths in the country in 2023, down three percent compared to the year before -- with ...
More than 100,000 people died of fentanyl and other drugs in 2023, but Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, and Maine all recorded ...
Deadly drug overdoses in the United States declined last year for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, new ...
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 ...
While these national figures offer a rare glimmer of good news on this grim issue, outcomes vary greatly in different states.
The number of deaths from drug overdose fell 3% to 107,543 in 2023 from the previous year, according to preliminary data from ...
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 ...
"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 ...
WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data ...