RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (KESQ) – Progress being made in reducing overdose deaths.
Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. plunged last year to their lowest level since 2019, according to new numbers from the CDC. In 2024, nationwide overdose deaths fell by nearly 30,000 from the year before, a drop of about 27 percent.
The Riverside County seeing similar trends. In 2024, 652 overdose deaths, down from nearly 900 the year prior…