{"id":6781,"date":"2026-05-15T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:02:07","slug":"heres-how-much-drug-overdose-deaths-have-declined-in-recent-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=6781","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how much drug overdose deaths have declined in recent years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deaths by drugs, particularly from opioids, have fallen in recent years. The age-adjusted drug overdose death rate decreased between 2022 and 2024, with the largest decrease, 26.2%, occurring from 2023 to 2024, from 31.3 deaths per 100,000 standard population to 23.1.<\/p>

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Top 10 by number in 2024<\/h4>\n

California 9,028<\/p>\n

Texas 4,980<\/p>\n

Florida 4,958<\/p>\n

New York 4,449<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania 3,341<\/p>\n

Ohio 3,165<\/p>

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Washington 3,145<\/p>\n

North Carolina 2,780<\/p>\n

Illinois 2,531<\/p>\n

Tennessee 2,499<\/p>

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Bottom 10 by number in 2024<\/h4>\n

Hawaii 333<\/p>\n

Rhode Island 323<\/p>\n

Washington D.C. 315<\/p>\n

New Hampshire 293<\/p>\n

Vermont 208<\/p>\n

Montana 170<\/p>\n

Nebraska 155<\/p>\n

Wyoming 120<\/p>\n

North Dakota 108<\/p>\n

South Dakota 98<\/p>\n

Top 10 by rate in 2024 (per 100,000 people)<\/h4>\n

West Virginia 48.9<\/p>\n

Alaska 45.1<\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. 43.2<\/p>\n

New Mexico 37.1<\/p>\n

Nevada 35.9<\/p>\n

Maine 35.2<\/p>\n

Tennessee 35.2<\/p>\n

Vermont 33.6<\/p>\n

Kentucky 33.5<\/p>\n

Louisiana 33.5<\/p>\n

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Lifesaving drug<\/h4>\n

Naloxone is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, according to the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n

More than 1.5 million naloxone prescriptions were dispensed from retail pharmacies in 2024.<\/p>\n

The overall rate of naloxone dispensed from retail pharmacies in the US increased from 0.3 to 0.6 per 100 persons from 2019 to 2023, then declined to 0.4 per 100 persons in 2024.<\/p>\n

Naloxone dispensing rates varied widely across the country.<\/p>\n

States with the highest naloxone dispensing rates per 100 persons in 2024 include Arkansas (1.3), New Mexico (1.2), District of Columbia (1.1), Rhode Island (1.1) and Tennessee (0.9).<\/p>

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States with the lowest naloxone dispensing rates per 100 persons in 2024 include Minnesota (0.1) and South Dakota (0.1).<\/p>\n

California naloxone distribution project data<\/h4>\n

Since the Naloxone Distribution Project began in October 2018, the NDP has distributed more than 8,501,000 kits of naloxone, which have been used to reverse more than 438,600 overdoses.<\/p>\n

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You can learn more about the project here.<\/p>\n

Sources: California Opioid Response, Kaiser Family Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics<\/em><\/p>

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