CDC: overdose deaths stopped rising for first time in decades

For the first time in three decades overdose deaths have stopped rising, according to the latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control.
Since 2017, prescriptions from retail pharmacies for naloxone, or Narcan, have doubled across the U.S. from just over 250,000 to 550,000.
Nowhere in Indiana is more Narcan being given out than in Marshall County.
Between 2017 and 2018, the CDC says almost 2,000 naloxone kits were given out to people in Marshall County.
That includes prescriptions for Narcan as well as kits given out by the county’s health department.

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