The death rate from drug overdoses just keeps on plummeting. Between mid-2023 and mid-2024 it's dropped by close to half.
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The death rate from drug overdoses just keeps on plummeting. Between mid-2023 and mid-2024 it's dropped by close to half.
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Taking the un-specified high as 9100 it would be circa 40%.
That's an insanely large drop for just one year with no obvious reason.
I suspect the issue is a change in how data is reported or analyzed.
Naloxone becoming widely available would be my assumption.
+1. Deaths in my community are way down because of naloxone.
What has not increased is treatment options, so a chart that showed overdoses + naloxone would probably put the OD potential death rate right back up where it was.
Was nationwide naloxone deployment really done in just a year?
Very few people are trying drugs who are not addicted since everyone knows the illegal drug supply is badly contaminated with stuff that will kill you on your first try. And again, given how badly the illegal drug supply has been poisoned, significant number of the already addicted are dead, have overcome their addictions or have naloxone with them when they use.
Don't tell Trump, he'll need to do something about this.
Trump has already hiked drug prices. He'll be taking credit for this before the day is done.
Trump will just take credit.
Overdoses tripled between 2010 and 2022, so we are not quite back to where we were 15 years ago. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db491.htm#:~:text=Statistics%20System%2C%20Mortality-,The%20overall%20rate%20of%20drug%20overdose%20deaths%20remained%20stable%20between,standard%20population%20(Figure%201).
Genuinely heartening news.
The falling death rate is clearly due to Trump's bold leadership on the issue.
Ya sure ya betcha 👽
Is there any more information about the drugs involved? Specifically, I'm wondering percentages are prescribed drugs vs illicit drugs?
Pretty sure this is strictly illegal drugs or legal drugs clearly use in an illegal fashion.
It used to be mostly legal drugs, but since fentanyl is fatal at like, 2mg, it's made the entire illicit supply of anything more dangerous as it could be in it.
In March 2023, the FDA approved Narcan to be distributed without a prescription.
Worm Brain and Mago Mussolini will probably reverse that policy (because its part of Biden's woke Marxists agenda) and then ban mifepristone nationwide.
Almost certainly they will reverse. America would be great again without these losers.
It's "Mango Mussolini"
Sorry, did not notice my typing error before the 5 minutes was up (spell check worked for typos of "Mussolini").
I’d have gone with Magoo:)
Tomato tomahto
Any chance of extending this time series backwards?
Agree with those who have pointed out that it's probably the wider availability of emergency anti-overdose drugs that have done the trick here. The CBP is also interdicting smuggled fentanyl more effectively, driving up the street price, so people are using it less.
I think your claim that the CBP is interdicting smuggled fentanyl more effectively is completely delusional.
+1
And if that's true, we'll see deaths spike again this year as their effectiveness drops.
A number of things are going on. Some have been mentioned above. Others:
Kids do not drink or use drugs as much now. It's not the 60's anymore--love ain't free.
Marijuana is legal in a lot/most places now.
The "popular" drug(s) shift, e.g. from cocaine and "crack" to heroin chic.
Those affected by Purdue Pharma dying off.
I do wonder how much is related to changes in opioid prescription rates. At this point we probably have burned through most people who became addicted because of legal prescriptions and then had to switch to illicit purchases when the prescription crackdown happened. They have either successfully gone through rehab or died.
It would be interesting to see the change in demographics for overdoses.