Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, emphasized there will likely still be "nearly 100,000" overdose deaths in the United States this year. "If we've learned anything over the past decade, it's that there is not one single...
White HouseOffice of National Drug Control PolicyDirector Dr. Rahul Gupta said the decrease shows that the Biden administration's efforts to reduce overdose deaths are working. Narcan and fentanyl test strips.John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images "For far too many years,...
Drug overdose deathsfell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data published Wednesday showed. An estimated 107,543 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention'sNational Center f...
Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that about 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020. This is an increase of 29.4% from the 72,151 deaths predicted for 2019, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, which released ...
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. May 15, 2024 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Pam Bondi confirmation hearing for Attorney General Live Marco Rubio confirmat...
Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl more than tripled from 2016 to 2021 in the United States, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new CDC data from the Vital Statistics Rapid Release Program showed tha
NEW YORK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths rose 15 percent in U.S. President Joe Biden's first year in office, according to new data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 107,000 people in the United States died in 2021 from drug...
Experts reacted cautiously. One described the decline as relatively small, and said it should be thought more as part of a leveling off than a decrease. Another noted that the last time a decline occurred — in 2018 — drug deaths shot up in the years that followed. ...
It would be only the second annual decline since the current national drug death epidemic began more than three decades ago. RELATED:2 charged with providing fentanyl-laced heroin that killed NYC transgender activist Cecilia Gentili Experts reacted cautiously. One described the decline as relatively ...
Experts reacted cautiously. One described the decline as relatively small, and said it should be thought more as part of a leveling off than a decrease. Another noted that the last time a decline occurred — in 2018 — drug deaths shot up in the years that followed. ...