CHI Health plans to begin rolling out the clinical practices, which reduced use of benzodiazepines and opioids in the hospital's psychiatric unit, across Nebraska and Iowa.

Compared to 2023, drug overdose deaths dropped in New York by nearly 32 percent in 2024, going closer to pre-pandemic levels, outpacing the nation while doing s ...

With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.

HealthDay News — Drug overdose deaths decreased by 26.9 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to provisional data released May 14, 2025, from the National Center for Health Statistics.