Overdose Deaths Are Going Down. Why?
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🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
According to a new CDC report, the number of overdoses in America is finally dropping after rising for years. What’s behind this rare good news in the ongoing opioid crisis?
Guest: David Ovalle, reporter covering opioids and addiction at the Washington Post
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| 0:29.0 | rated 15. For years, the Centers for Disease Control has released this data, data that has been mind-numbingly consistent. Not in a good way. |
| 0:47.0 | A new CDC data shows the opioid epidemic is killing young Americans at an alarming rate. The data shows... This data is about... is Preliminary data shows that in 2020, US drug overdose deaths rose by nearly 30%. |
| 1:06.2 | That's 93,331 deaths last year. |
| 1:11.2 | Again, in 2021. In 2021. |
| 1:13.0 | More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021. |
| 1:18.0 | That's the highest annual death toll ever recorded. |
| 1:21.0 | That's a 40% increase from two years earlier. |
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