U.S. deaths due to drug overdoses fell last year, the first decrease in five years, according to new estimates by the Centers ...
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.
Overdose deaths in Florida dropped by 8% the same year, the CDC data shows, but that still left the state’s death toll at ...
Roughly one in every three Americans have reported knowing someone who has died of a drug overdose, a new survey found. The ...
Gov. Andy Beshear says drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023. It marks the second straight yearly decline, ...
Many are dying from fentanyl and other drugs. The hardest-hit are Black men in their 50s to 70s, a group that Baltimore’s ...
The steepest increase in overdoses in recent years has been among younger urban Black Americans, Dr. Jerome Adams writes.
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Of the tens of thousands of lives taken nationwide by fentanyl each year, many had no idea they were taking the deadly opioid ...
A top assassin for the Sinaloa drug cartel who was arrested by Mexican authorities last fall has been extradited to the U.S.
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That 16 percent decrease equates to 116 fewer people who lost their lives from overdoses last year, according to data from ...