NEW YORK, May 14 (Xinhua) -- There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before, the largest one-year decline ever recorded -- an estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
That went down 27 percent from the 110,000 in 2023.
