Recent drug overdose mortality decline compared with pre–COVID-19 trend

JAMA Network Open

2025-02-05

(Press-News.org) About The Study: Drug overdose deaths have increased exponentially since 1979. This rate of increase accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic but has since waned. When comparing recent drug-related mortality rates with their pre-2020 trajectory, the vast majority of states remained higher than expected. In the 4 years between 2020 and 2023, nearly all states had higher drug-related mortality rates than their 2019 rates.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Keith Humphreys, PhD, email knh@stanford.edu.

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