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https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/15/fentanyl-market-overdose-crash/

A nationwide drop in overdose deaths may be driven by a collapse of the international fentanyl supply chain in 2023, a Maryland criminologist in world drug markets reported in the journal Science.

“We were trying to understand why fentanyl overdose deaths, after rising rapidly for a decade in mid-2023 suddenly turned downward,” Peter Reuter, professor of public policy and criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park, told The Baltimore Sun. “We are reasonably sure that something has happened to the precursor chemical supply from China that was a significant cause of the downturn in fentanyl.”

Nationally, all drug overdose deaths dropped from more than 111,000 in August 2023 to 69,000 in August 2025, according to Centers for Disease Control data. Maryland deaths similarly dropped from 2,548 to 1,417 in that time period. Deaths in Baltimore City fell from 1,043 in 2023 to 778 in 2024.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fentanyl-pipeline-snapped-why-overdose-181700023.html