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...
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 Holiday traffic along Ravenel Bridge in Charleston, SC Live Tracking holiday...
expansion of overdose prevention and addiction treatment, and the grim possibility that the epidemic has killed so many that now there are basically fewer people to kill.
expansion of overdose prevention and addiction treatment, and the grim possibility that the epidemic has killed so many that now there are basically fewer people to kill.
Though the data is provisional and could change after more analysis, the agency still expects a drop when the final counts are in. It would be only the second annual decline since the current national drug death epidemic began more than three decades ago. ...
The CDC has not yet reported overdose numbers for 2023, although provisional data through the first 10 months of the year suggest overdose deaths continued to be stable last year. In an effort to prevent drug overdoses and deaths in young people, the American Medical Associationhas called forsc...
Provisional estimates show drug overdose deaths declined about 3.1% nationwide, but multiple states reported increases of more than 20%. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s provisional estimated overdose deaths in 2023 declined about 3.1% to 107,543. That’s down from 111,029 in 202...
More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic U.S. record. That translates to roughly one overdose death every 5 minutes.
"COVID-19, the third leading cause of death in 2021, fell to fourth place in 2022 because of the large decrease in COVID-19–associated deaths compared with those in 2021," NCHS authors wrote in ananalysisof the agency's provisional mortality data published Thursday. ...
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...