The number of overdoses dropped by 27 % last year – Liberation
This is good news in terms of public health that Donald Trump’s administration hastened to claim. However, it was his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, who had facilitated access to substitution treatments and who had made Naxolone, a drug against overdosesa cornerstone of its anti -crop policy.
The number of deaths per overdose experienced a significant drop in the United States in 2024, reaching its lowest level in five years and offering some hope in the opioid crisis in the countryaccording to data published this Wednesday, May 14, by the American health authorities on Wednesday, May 14.
In 2024, 80,391 people died due to an overdose of drugs across the Atlantic, a fall of 27 % compared to the 110,035 deaths recorded the previous year. This is the lowest figure Since 2019. The number of deaths linked to fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid which has made many victims in recent years, has also plunged, from around 76,000 in 2023 to 48,422 last year. Only two states have increased, Nevada and South Dakota.
« Despite these general improvements, overdoses remain the main cause of mortality for Americans aged 18 to 44, which underlines the need to continue efforts to continue to improve the situation, » underlines the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a press release.
The opioid crisis found its roots in the 1990s when drug manufacturers flooded the market with prescription prescription such as oxycontin. The current wave is fed by another opioid, Fentanyl, illicitly madelargely in China and introduced in the United States via Mexico. It is often mixed with stimulants such as methamphetamine and cocaine.
The deaths by overdose exploded during the COVVI-19 epidemic due to the disruption of health care and the worsening of mental health problems. More than a million Americans have died by overdose over the past 20 years.
