MedPage Today October 4, 2024
— We still don’t know what’s driving the trend, and numbers remain unacceptably high
The CDC released preliminary data showing U.S. drug overdose deaths dropped last year by more than 10%. This has been particularly newsworthy in the context of the ongoing “opioid epidemic” and heavy political campaigning around the dangers of fentanyl. Most noteworthy is that it marks the lowest annual death toll since 2020, and the first decrease since 2018. While it is preliminary data, it has already been extensively verified. In fact, this is a revision of earlier preliminary data, and now shows even fewer deaths than previously thought. The final number could go even lower.
This has been widely celebrated as good news by any metric....
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