Excerpt: “The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States decreased 4.0% from 2022 (32.6 deaths per 100,000 standard population) to 2023 (31.3) (Table). The jurisdictions with the highest rates in 2023 were West Virginia (81.9) and the District of Columbia (60.7), and the states with the lowest rates were Nebraska (9.0) and South Dakota (11.2) (Figure 1, Table). Between 2022 and 2023, age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in 20 states and did not change significantly in 25 states (Figure 2, Table). The rate increased between 2022 and 2023 in 6 states: Alabama, Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.”
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