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Washington (AFP) - Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting tentative progress in combating the opioid epidemic even as experts cautioned against premature celebration. There were an estimated 107,543 such deaths in the country in 2023, down three percent compared to the year before -- with the decline driven by a drop in fatalities associated with the synthetic opioid fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Today's data showing a decrease in drug ove...
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Washington (AFP) - Drug overdose deaths in the United States declined last year for the first time since 2018, provisional data released Wednesday showed, suggesting the strategy of increasing access to the life-saving medicine naloxone could be working. There were an estimated 107,543 such deaths in the country in 2023, down three percent compared to the year before -- with the decline driven by a drop in deaths associated with the synthetic opioid fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. America's opioid crisis has its roots in the 1990s with the aggressive mark...
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Grant Wahl, the journalist who died while covering the World Cup on Saturday, had an aortic aneurysm, his family revealed. He collapsed in his seat at Lusail Stadium during the match between Argentina and the Netherlands and emergency service workers took him out on a stretcher. His death resulted from a rupture in a blood vessel leading to the heart, according to an autopsy of Wahl, who was 49 at the time of death. IN MEMORIAM 2022: 100 GREAT CELEBRITIES WHO DIED THIS YEAR! Wahl’s wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, publicly confirmed his cause of death amid speculation that it was due to vaccine compl...
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New York (AFP) - The United States has crossed the threshold of one million deaths from Covid-19, the White House said on Thursday, as the nation seeks to turn the page on the pandemic despite threats of another surge. "Today, we mark a tragic milestone," President Joe Biden said in a statement that acknowledged the "unrelenting" pain of bereaved families, and urged Americans to remain vigilant as cases tick back up. "One million empty chairs around the dinner table," Biden said. "Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, a community, and a nation forever changed." Biden's anno...
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New York (AFP) - The United States is about to cross the threshold of one million deaths from Covid-19, a grim milestone that comes as cities like New York try to turn the page on the pandemic despite threats of another surge. "It's unfathomable," Diana Berrent, one of the first people in New York state to catch coronavirus, said of the toll that far exceeds epidemiologists' worst predictions made at the outbreak of the crisis in spring 2020. Then, New York City was the virus epicenter. Hospitals and morgues overflowed and empty streets rang to the sound of ambulance sirens as then-president D...
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