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US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen

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US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

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

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Wait…so, they had 30 deaths TOTAL in the year 2000?

Damn. I’m fairly sure Ohio in 2015 was in the thousands.

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