2024 Sees Significant Decline in OD Deaths, First Decline Since 2020

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https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/nx-s1-5107417/overdose-fatal-fentanyl-death-opioid

For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S.​

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"This is exciting," said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], the federal laboratory charged with studying addiction. "This looks real. This looks very, very real."​

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National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6 percent. That's a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.​

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Some researchers believe the data will show an even larger decline in drug deaths when federal surveys are updated to reflect improvements being seen at the state level, especially in the eastern U.S.​

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"In the states that have the most rapid data collection systems, we’re seeing declines of twenty percent, thirty percent," said Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, an expert on street drugs at the University of North Carolina.​

 

[Offline4Better.]

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/nx-s1-5107417/overdose-fatal-fentanyl-death-opioid

For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S.​

​

"This is exciting," said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], the federal laboratory charged with studying addiction. "This looks real. This looks very, very real."​

​

National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6 percent. That's a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.​

​

Some researchers believe the data will show an even larger decline in drug deaths when federal surveys are updated to reflect improvements being seen at the state level, especially in the eastern U.S.​

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"In the states that have the most rapid data collection systems, we’re seeing declines of twenty percent, thirty percent," said Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, an expert on street drugs at the University of North Carolina.​

Amen to this, but I hope the levels drop down by 100% down to 0 deaths. Can we see what the world data is? Is the overdose trend dropping in say the UK, or elsewhere?

In the UK, the data only goes up through 2022, and OD deaths increased by 1% from 2021 to 2022:

Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics

Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales from 1993 to 2022, by cause of death, sex, age and substances involved in the death.

www.ons.gov.uk

 

[Hans Blaster]

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/nx-s1-5107417/overdose-fatal-fentanyl-death-opioid

For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the U.S.​

​

"This is exciting," said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse [NIDA], the federal laboratory charged with studying addiction. "This looks real. This looks very, very real."​

​

National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6 percent. That's a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.​

​

Some researchers believe the data will show an even larger decline in drug deaths when federal surveys are updated to reflect improvements being seen at the state level, especially in the eastern U.S.​

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"In the states that have the most rapid data collection systems, we’re seeing declines of twenty percent, thirty percent," said Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, an expert on street drugs at the University of North Carolina.​

I believe this may have something to do with it:

FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Naloxone Nasal Spray

 

[Matt5]

Evolutionary forces are at work here. Kill off all the dummies. The people who are left either don't take the drugs or change behavior. It looks like more people are just changing behavior: Take the drugs but have a friend around with naloxone.

All those people who want to casually take drugs alone will have to stop or risk death.