While opioid overdoses have been on the rise for decades, recent trends offer a ray of hope. NPR Reports:
For the first time in decades, public health data shows a sudden and hopeful drop in drug overdose deaths across the United States.
“This is exciting,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. [NIDA]the federal laboratory in charge of studying addictions. “This seems real. It seems very, very real.”
National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline Decrease in drug deaths by approximately 10.6 percentThis represents a big change compared to recent years, when Fatal overdoses increased steadily in double-digit percentages.
CDC data is down. Let’s hope this trend continues.
HT: Marginal revolution.
