Overdose Deaths Dropped By 17% – How The Good News?

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Addiction Recovery Bulletin

PBS VIDEO – DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY –

Dec. 12, 2024 –  There is a mystery here. This is such a huge decline. It’s unprecedented in the history of drug addiction in America to see a drop this fast.  Front-line public health workers I talked to do think naloxone is reversing a lot of overdoses that would otherwise be fatal. Also … That’s playing a role. There has been an immense effort to target the cartels. And there’s some sign that the fentanyl reaching American streets may be weaker and may be a little bit less available.

So these are just some of the responses that the people I’m talking to say are really working, saving at this point tens of thousands of lives.

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