Are We Truly Seeing A Reduction In Overdose Deaths?

In positive news, that’s how it sounds.

I initially heard about this potential trend in the below video, but then as it was playing, I had to go wake up my wife and then head to the bathroom, so I cannot say I got every salient point.

It appears to be rooted in this report from NPR:

NPR Exclusive: U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives

Here’s the first “nut graf” of the NPR report:

National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6 percent. That’s a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit…