Deaths caused by drug overdose decreased in the U.S. by 30,000 last year, marking the largest one-year decline in drug-related deaths.
Around 80,000 people died from an overdose last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, down 27% from 110,000 in 2023. The largest previous one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Every state except Nevada and South Dakota saw a decrease in drug overdose deaths. Some of the biggest decreases were in Louisiana, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia, which have been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
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The CDC has been collecting data on overdose deaths for 45 years. More than 1 million people in the U.S. have died of opioid-related overdoses since
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