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Experts are watching in disbelief as drug overdose deaths in the US are suddenly starting to drop, bucking a long and tragic rise."In the states that have the most rapid data collection systems, we’re seeing declines of twenty percent, thirty percent," University of North Carolina street drugs expert Nabarun Dasgupta told.
The proliferation of the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl has had a grim effect on drug deaths, with overdoses skyrocketing over the last five years. Between January 2020 and January 2021, overdose deaths involving opioidsIt's possible that it's just a blip, and that overdose deaths will level off or start to rise again. But some optimistic experts are hoping.
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