Westfield Health Bulletin: steep drop in drug deaths is encouraging, but cause remains a mystery

Westfield Health Bulletin: steep drop in drug deaths is encouraging, but cause remains a mystery

Good news is always welcome, but usually hard to come by especially with big issues.Even still, hopes are dashed when we constantly see one step forward and five steps backwards. The drug epidemic and overdose deaths that followed it have been disheartening, unsettling and seemingly insurmountable. Until now. A variety of factors are in play, but the bottom line is that drug deaths are plummeting and showing no signs of stopping.