CHARLOTTE (WJZY) — For the first time since 2018, the United States has seen a decrease in drug overdose deaths. The Center for Disease Control officials saw a nearly 15 percent drop in deaths from June 2023 through June 2024.
“There are 14,063 fewer deaths in the United States of America. 14,063. And a decline like this is not just a statistic, it is not just a number. It’s lives that have been saved. It is parents that do not have to bury their children,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram.
On Friday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration hosted the third annual national family summit on fentanyl. For the third straight year, families impacted by fentanyl drug poisoning or overdose came together in DC to work on ways to help the DEA combat the fentanyl crisis…