{"id":25821,"date":"2025-05-15T00:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/drug-overdose-deaths-plummeted-in-2024-c-d-c-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T00:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:20:39","slug":"drug-overdose-deaths-plummeted-in-2024-c-d-c-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/drug-overdose-deaths-plummeted-in-2024-c-d-c-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 30,000 last year, the government reported on Wednesday, the strongest sign yet that the country is making progress against one of its deadliest, most intractable public health crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a>, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the latest in a series of reports over <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/15\/health\/drug-overdose-deaths.html\" title=\"\">the past year<\/a> offering hints that the drug-related death toll that has gutted families and communities could be starting to ease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Public health experts had been carefully watching the monthly updates, with skepticism at first, and then with growing hope. Wednesday\u2019s report was the most encouraging yet. Deaths declined in all major categories of drug use, stimulants as well as opioids, dropping in every state but two. Nationwide, drug fatalities plunged nearly 27 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a decline that we\u2019ve been waiting more than a decade for,\u201d said Dr. Matthew Christiansen, a physician and former director of West Virginia\u2019s drug control policy. \u201cWe\u2019ve invested hundreds of billions of dollars into addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Addiction specialists said that changes in the illicit drug supply as well as greater access to drug treatment and the use of naloxone to reverse overdoses seemed to be playing a role, but whether the country could sustain that progress was an open question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In announcing the new numbers, the C.D.C. praised President Trump, saying in a statement that since he \u201cdeclared the opioid crisis a public health emergency in 2017\u201d the government had added more resources to battle the drug problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the new data was released as Mr. Trump\u2019s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was testifying on Capitol Hill about the administration\u2019s proposed cuts to many federal health programs, including those addressing the drug crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t see how it can be sustained, with the kinds of deep cuts that they\u2019re taking to many of the programs that have been driving these reductions,\u201d said Traci C. Green, an epidemiologist at Brandeis University who researches drug use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt seems ridiculous to cut that momentum so dramatically,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And despite the progress, drug fatalities remain high. According to the data, 80,391 people died from drug-related causes in 2024. That was the lowest tally since 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic isolated drug users and shut down treatment facilities, sending overdose fatalities skyrocketing. But Dr. Green called the latest figures \u201cextremely high and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The C.D.C.\u2019s statement said the improved numbers showed that public health interventions were \u201cmaking a difference and having a meaningful impact.\u201d Still, it noted that overdose remained the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 44.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While a constellation of factors could be accelerating the drop, experts do not know which have had the most impact. Dr. Christiansen said that addiction was a particularly elusive crisis to combat because it had tentacles in a patient\u2019s economic, familial, cultural, social and medical background. An array of interventions includes not only emergency responses and treatment, he said, but a continuum of care that wraps in housing and job training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNow funding is being rescinded, and we still don\u2019t know what the appropriate level of intervention is for each particular community, town, region and state,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople and programs are going to fall through the cracks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to the preliminary budget circulated among federal agencies, the C.D.C.\u2019s opioid surveillance programs may be cut by $30 million and folded into a new subdivision, the Administration for Healthy America. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the federal agency that coordinates and monitors grants for support programs, and provides training and data analysis, is facing a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/13\/health\/trump-drugs-treatment.html\" title=\"\">cut of over a billion dollars,<\/a> and will also be folded into the new subdivision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to the agency\u2019s most recent survey about substance use, in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/data\/sites\/default\/files\/NSDUH%202023%20Annual%20Release\/2023-nsduh-main-highlights.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2023<\/a>, 27.2 million Americans ages 12 or older had a drug use disorder, 28.9 million had alcohol use disorder and 7.5 million had both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Wednesday\u2019s hearing, before the House Appropriations Committee, Representative Madeleine Dean, Democrat of Pennsylvania, whose son is in recovery from opioid addiction, took Mr. Kennedy to task, noting his own history of heroin addiction. She said that in light of the improving fatality rates, she could not understand the rationale for the administration\u2019s cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Addressing Mr. Kennedy, she said: \u201cYou know these families. You are these families. 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