Drug overdose deaths fell in 2024, reports CDC

Death by overdose in the United States fell almost 30,000 last year, the government reported on Wednesday, the strongest sign that the country is progressing against one of its deadliest and most insoluble public health crises.

Data, published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are the last people in a series of reports over the past year, offering advice that the number of drugs related to drugs that have emptied families and communities could start to relieve themselves.

Public health experts had carefully looked at the monthly updates, with skepticism at first, then with growing hope. Wednesday’s report has been the most encouraging to date. Deaths have decreased in all the main categories of drug use, stimulants and opioids, falling into each state but two. At the national level, the deaths of drugs plunged almost 27%.

“This is a decrease that we expected more than a decade,” said Dr. Matthew Christiansen, doctor and former director of the Virginia-Western drug control policy. “We have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in dependence.”

Dexicomania specialists have said that changes in the illicit drug supply as well as access to drug treatment and the use of naloxone to reverse overdoses seemed to play a role, but if the country could support this progress was an open issue.

By announcing the new figures, the CDC congratulated President Trump, saying that in a statement that since he “declared the opioid crisis an emergency in public health in 2017”, the government added more resources to combat the drug problem.