<p data-async="">Good news keeps pouring in — relatively speaking, at least — on the opioid-overdose epidemic. “Overdose deaths plummeted in 2024,” <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;the New York Times reported recently&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/health/overdose-deaths-fentanyl.html&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/health/overdose-deaths-fentanyl.html" target="_blank">the New York Times reported recently</a>: Whereas roughly 81,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses last year, the year before it had been more like 107,000.</p>

One thing you'll notice looking at opioid-overdose statistics is that they don’t conspicuously discriminate according to politics or policy.{ai:summary}<p>Overdose deaths dropped to about 81,000 in 2024, down from roughly 107,000 in 2023, according to the New York Times. #health</p>

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