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...
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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...
Earlier provisional dataestimated more than 109,000 overdose deaths in 2022, but provisional data includes all overdose deaths, while the final numbers are limited to U.S. residents. The CDC has not yet reported overdose numbers for 2023, although provisional data through the first 10 months of ...
Roughly 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with 75% of these deaths involving an opioid. Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicates that there were an estimated 100,...
Overdose deaths have far-reaching consequences that are not fully understood. In the United States, more than 109 000 people died from a drug overdose in 2022, placing the national total since 2000 at more than 1.1 million overdose deaths. The overdose crisis has had wi...
Drug overdose deaths are attributed as such by the CDC after investigations into the causes of death. These investigations can be lengthy. The provisional data breaks down the overdose deaths by the drugs involved in them. If a death involved two drugs, it is recorded in the death counts for...
Over the last 24 hours, there have been four suspected overdose deaths in the City of Buffalo. The four deaths have occurred in different parts of the city. Suspected crack and/or powder cocaine has been found at each scene. — Buffalo Police Department (@BuffaloNYPolice)November 19, 2023 ...
West Virginia is currently the state with the highest drug overdose death rate in the United States, with 91 deaths per 100,000 population in 2022. Although West Virginia had the highest drug overdose death rate at that time, California was the state where the most people died from ...
Dean Anderson holds up a sign before a march on the first National Day of Action to draw attention to the opioid overdose epidemic, in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, on February 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Listen to this article ...