Opioid Overdose Deaths Decline
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•Opioid deaths now lowest in 3 years, but still worse than pre-pandemic
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CDC estimates that there were 75,091 deaths for the year ending in 2024 .
At its peak over last summer , the U.S. reached more than 86,000 estimated annual overdose deaths.
The pace of deaths still remains far worse than before the pandemic, when there were fewer than 50,000 fatal overdoses a year .
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