{"id":59469,"date":"2025-05-17T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59469"},"modified":"2025-05-17T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:32:26","slug":"good-news-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59469","title":{"rendered":"Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, NBC News<\/a> reported that overdose deaths in America decreased 27 percent last year.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before \u2014 the largest one-year decline ever recorded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data<\/a>\u00a0released Wednesday. That\u2019s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the agency\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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All but two states saw declines last year \u2014 with some of the biggest in Ohio, West Virginia and other states that have been hard-hit in the nation\u2019s decades-long overdose epidemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Experts say more research needs to be done to understand what drove the reduction, but they mention several possible factors. Among the most cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n