The government stated that excessive deaths in the United States decreased by about 30,000 last year, according to the government on Wednesday, the strongest sign so far that the country is making progress against one of the most bloody and most exciting public health crises.
the DataAnd issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are the latest in a series of reports. last year Providing hints that the number of drug -related deaths that destroy families and societies may begin to mitigate.
Public health experts were carefully watching monthly updates, with suspicion at first, then with the increasing hope. The Wednesday’s report was the most encouraged yet. The deaths decreased in all major groups of drug use, stimulants as well as opioids, and decline in each state, but two. Throughout the country, the deaths of drugs decreased by nearly 27 percent.
“This is a decrease that we are waiting for more than a decade.” “We have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in addiction.”
Addiction specialists said that the changes in illegal drug supplies in addition to increasing access to drug therapy and the use of Naloxone to unlike excessive doses seem to play a role, but whether the country can maintain this progress an open issue.
By announcing the new numbers, the Center for Control of Diseases praised President Trump, saying in a statement that since “he announced that the opioid crisis is in a public health emergency in 2017” the government added more resources to fight the drug problem.
However, the new data was issued as Minister of Health, Mr. Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, attests to Capitol Hill about the proposed reductions of the administration of many federal health programs, including those who take the drug crisis.
“I don’t see how it can be sustainable, with the types of deep discounts they take to many programs that were leading these cuts,” said Traci C. Green, the epidemic scientist at the University of Brandis, who is looking for drug use.
She said, “It seems absurd to cut this momentum greatly.”
Despite progress, drug deaths are still high. According to the data, 80,391 people died for drug-related reasons in 2024. This was the lowest balance since 2019, before the ousted drug users in the Covid-19 bouquet rose, which led to the closure of excessive treatment facilities. But Dr. Green called the latest numbers “very high and unacceptable.”
A statement of the Disease Control Center said that the improved numbers showed that public health interventions were “making a difference and a meaningful effect.” However, he noticed that the extra dose remained the main cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 44.
While a group of factors can accelerate the decline, experts do not know any effect that has had a greater effect. Dr. Christiansen said that addiction was a short -to -reacher crisis because he had claws in the economic, family, cultural, social and medical background of the patient. He said that a set of interventions not only includes responses and emergency treatment, but it is a series of care that wraps in housing and training.
He said: “The financing is now being canceled, and we still do not know what is the appropriate level of intervention for every specific society, the city, the region and the state.” “People and programs will fall through cracks.”
According to the initial budget that is distributed among federal agencies, opioid monitoring programs may be reduced at the center of diseases control by 30 million dollars and folded in a new section, which is America’s health administration. Narcotics and Mental Health Services Department, the Federal Agency that coordinates and monitors grants for support programs, provides training and data analysis, face a Reducing more than one billion dollars, It will also be folded in the new sub -division.
According to the agency’s latest drug use, in the drug abuse, in 202327.2 million Americans between the ages of 12 years or older who suffer from drug use disorder, 28.9 million suffers from alcohol abuse and 7.5 million suffers from both.
On Wednesday’s session, before the Parliament’s credits committee, the actor Madeleine, Dean, Democrat Pennsylvania, whose son recovered from opioid addiction, Mr. Kennedy, took the mission, with reference to his history in heroin addiction. She said that in light of improving death rates, she could not understand the logical basis for cutting discounts.
In his speech to Mr. Kennedy: “You know these families. You are these families. Help us save more lives.”
