New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest opioid overdose deaths have dropped to their lowest level in three years.
The CDC estimates there were just over 75,000 opioid overdose deaths for the year that ended in April.
That’s a 10% drop from the peak of estimated opioid deaths during the summer of 2023, when the CDC estimated more than 86,000 opioid deaths in the period between August 2022 and August 2023.
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