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Charting the Decline of the Fourth Wave: US Overdose Deaths by Race, Geography, and Substance Involvement

2026-01-30 addiction medicine Title + abstract only
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AimsTo characterize decreases in overdose mortality in the United States between 2023 and 2024 by substance involvement, geography, race/ethnicity, demographic, and other key dimensions. DesignPopulation-based study of national death records. SettingUnited States. Participants/casesAll individuals who died from drug overdose between January 1999 and December 2024. MeasurementsAnnual or monthly (annualized) overdose deaths per 100,000 population. Year and month of occurrence of overdose death...

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