US life expectancy reached a record high in 2024 as deaths from drug overdose and Covid-19 dropped

People in the United States can expect to live longer than ever, as death rates returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024.

US overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveal

U.S. overdose deaths fell through the most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that worsened for ...

Decline in overdose deaths slowing: Government data

The number of drug overdose deaths continued to fall in 2025, albeit at a slower pace than the year prior, new data from the ...

'She was just laying there, like lifeless' | Family recounts 7-year-old’s GLP-1 overdose as poison centers see spike in calls

Indiana Poison Center reports GLP-1 calls doubled last year; National Poison Data System, America's Poison Centers reports a ...
STAT

Decrease in drug deaths stems from ‘shock’ to fentanyl supply, new research suggests

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The significant, recent decline in U.S. drug overdose deaths was driven in large part by a sudden shift in North America’s illicit drug supply ...
Fairbanks KTVF on MSN

Alaska drug overdose deaths drop, though less dramatically than national plunge

Alaska had fewer overdose deaths in 2024 than in the year prior, and state health officials are working on ways to continue ...
Yahoo

Drug overdose deaths, ER visits rise in Taos, Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties

Sep. 18—The New Mexico Department of Health on Thursday reported a gargantuan spike in drug overdose deaths and related emergency room visits during the first half of 2025 in Taos, Santa Fe and Rio ...
San Francisco Examiner

What 6 years of overdose-deaths data reveal about SF drug crisis

The City recorded 621 such fatalities last year, according to the latest preliminary report from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. That total includes overdose deaths attributed to fentanyl, ...
Alaska Public Media

Overdose death rates decline in Alaska after record high

The rate of Alaskans dying from drug overdoses declined by 5% in 2024 compared to the year before. That’s a welcome reduction after the state saw its highest number of overdose deaths on record in ...

A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.

Leila Turner-Scott reads a conversation her son Sam had with ChatGPT on the day of his death while at her home in Dripping Springs, Texas, where she moved following his fatal overdose. Turner-Scott is ...
phillyvoice.com

For some, Overdose Awareness Day is more than a remembrance. It's a way to protest the city's approach to the crisis

Roz Pichardo, who runs The Sunshine House, a community outreach and education organization in Kensington, has been working with volunteers and people who frequent her center to make elaborate sets of ...
The Nation

On Trial for a Radical Approach to Reducing Drug Overdoses in British Columbia

The Vancouver duo behind the Drug User Liberation Front faces 40 years behind bars for drug trafficking. But this is no ordinary case. Ad Policy East Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside ...