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Number of US overdose deaths appears to be falling
By Mike Stobbe
CDC: Drug Overdose Deaths Finally Dropped in 2018
By Jamie Ducharme
Drug overdoses fell significantly in 2018 for first time in decades, provisional CDC data show
By Christopher Ingraham
US drug overdose deaths fell slightly in 2018
By Jacqueline Howard, Ben Tinker & Jamie Gumbrecht
Drug Overdose Deaths Drop in U.S. for First Time Since 1990 (Published 2019)
By Abby Goodnough, Margot Sanger-Katz & Josh Katz