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Here’s the actual OD data.

It is delayed about 5-6 months so cause of death can be attributed. No one is making anything up or hiding bodies.

The big rise hit during Covid and peaked a couple of years ago. Deaths were down to 80K ish when Biden left, have dropped another 10K or so since Trump.


It’s certainly dropped, and things are actually looking better on some city streets. But I’m pretty confident they are undercounting the overdoses by a somewhat significant amount. A lot of “unhoused deaths” that are just not getting detailed autopsies and tox reports. I don’t blame cities for passing on doing those tests. If there is no criminal investigation involved, it probably doesn’t make sense.