TOH edition: Wednesday, 23 September 2026 · Health & Medicine
Fentanyl Has Defined a Decade of American Loss. Alabama Has Just Recorded 46 Percent Fewer Overdose Deaths Than Two Years Ago.
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The Alabama Department of Mental Health reports that substance-related overdose deaths in the state have fallen 46 percent against provisional figures for March 2024. The state decline sits inside a national turn: CDC's provisional count for April 2025 to March 2026 was 67,798 drug overdose deaths, 12.3 percent fewer than the previous year.
The synthetic opioid crisis is one of the few issues almost every American family can name someone touched by. A state at the centre of it is now counting its dead in far smaller numbers.
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