While it's the first annual decline since 2018, more than 100,000 died from overdoses last year.
Share on linkedin A bag of evidence containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl disguised as Oxycodone in 2020 in California. Photo: Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Imagesin the United States declined last year for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, new preliminary federal data show.It's a rare glimmer of positive news amid a drug epidemic that's gripped the nation for over two decades and still continues to kill over 100,000 people each year.
But deaths from cocaine and stimulants like methamphetamine continued to tick up, as they are increasingly mixed with fentanyl, creating a While fentanyl took longer to move to the western part of the country, those states are now seeing some of the sharpest year-over-year increases in overdose deaths. Alaska, Oregon and Washington state all had increases of at least 27%.Annual drug overdose deaths last declined in 2018, which was the first time they had decreased since the 1990s as prescription painkillers sparked an addiction crisis.
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