After surging to a record in 2022, drug overdose deaths in Kansas started receding last year, although the death toll was still higher than many other years.
A new state health department report showed there were 644 drug overdose deaths in 2023, a decline of 13% from the 739 reported a year earlier.
The number of overdose deaths resulting from synthetic opioids, the umbrella category that includes the lethal drug fentanyl, dropped by 16% from 2022 to 2023, according to state health . . .
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