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Checked by PolitiFact27 Aug 2020United States Health

Ryan Holets, Detective

“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True

PolitiFact says: Drug overdose deaths decreased from 2017 to 2018, dropping by about 4.1%, according to the CDC. Experts also note that the 2018 decrease was extremely small, that deaths went up again in 2019.