Nevada saw a small increase in drug overdose deaths in 2024, bucking the national trend that showed the largest one-year decline ever recorded. Across the U.S., an estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year

Nevada sees rising overdose deaths despite national decline. Local recovery advocate Sean O'Donnel, who lost his partner to overdose, leads new door-to-door outreach program launching in June.

All but two states saw declines last year, with Nevada and South Dakota seeing small increases. Some of the biggest drops were in Ohio, West Virginia and other states that have been hard-hit in the nation’s decades-long overdose epidemic.