There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to ...

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West Virginia has had the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation. The National Center for Health Statistics has shown that West Virginia has been experiencing a drug overdose death rate of ...

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But America’s drug crisis hasn’t gone away — while overdose mortality rates are continuing to decline, with less than 81,000 deaths in the 12 months recorded up to November 2024, those ...