Overdose Deaths Drop

And the media mentions every cause they can think of....except one:

• U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades.

  Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years — the longest drop in decades — but also that the decline was slowing. 

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  Researchers cannot yet say with confidence why deaths have gone down. Experts have offered multiple possible explanations: increased availability of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, expanded addiction treatment, shifts in how people use drugs, and the growing impact of billions of dollars in opioid lawsuit settlement money.

  Some also point to research that suggests the number of people likely to overdose has been shrinking, as fewer teens take up drugs and many illicit drug users have died.

They even try to give credit to the Chinese communists for regulatory changes, as if the Chinese government wasn't one of the driving forces for destabilizing the US via cheap opioids.

But not a single mention of exploding drug boats and submarines in the Gulf. Wouldn't want to give credit to a program that works and doesn't leave any repeat offenders around for another go.