{"id":9736,"date":"2026-01-14T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/us-overdose-deaths-fell-through-most-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:02:22","slug":"us-overdose-deaths-fell-through-most-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/us-overdose-deaths-fell-through-most-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveals<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">Federal data<\/a>\u00a0released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years \u2014 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-overdose-deaths-opioids-1561a9f189255ad60c533462f10490a2\">longest drop in decades<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 but also that the decline was slowing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/14\/us-overdose-deaths-fell-through-most-of-2025\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Associated Press<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/14\/us-overdose-deaths-fell-through-most-of-2025\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of 2025, federal data reveals NEW YORK \u2014 U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades. Federal data\u00a0released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years \u2014 the\u00a0longest drop in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2183,2145,1428,2184],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-cdc","category-health","category-opioids","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}