'Any decline is encouraging,' said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University researcher who studies overdose trends. 'But I think it's certainly premature to celebrate or to draw any large-scale conclusions about where we may be headed long-term with this crisis.
Overdose deaths involving opioids, including fentanyl, fell from 2022 to 2023.The number of U.S. fatal overdoses fell in 2023, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data published Wednesday showed.
Dr. Susan Sherman, a professor in the department of health, behavior and society at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told ABC News it's "great" to see the numbers trending downward."If you think about it, the numbers are so crazy high that we were below 100,000 the last time we had a dip," she said. "It's great that there's a decrease."
Fentanyl is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine and can be deadly even in small doses, according to the CDC. Other drugs may be laced with deadly levels of fentanyl, and a user is not able to see it, taste it, or smell it. Some states across the U.S. saw decreases with Indiana, Kansas, Maine and Nebraska experiencing declines of 15% or more, the data shows. However, there were increases in others with Alaska, Oregon and Washington seeing an increase of least 27% compared to the same period in 2022.
Some of the progress may be attributed to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approving the overdose reversal drugWalgreens announces it will sell a generic version of over-the-counter Narcan
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