CDC Asks Public Help Tracking Overdose Deaths Across America
Published Date: 12/15/2025
Notice
Summary
The CDC wants your thoughts on a plan to keep tracking overdose data from 90 health departments to help save lives faster. This project focuses on people most at risk of overdoses and aims to make data collection easier and more useful. Comments are open until February 13, 2026, so now’s the time to speak up!
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CDC Continues OD2A Overdose Surveillance
The CDC proposes to continue the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) cooperative agreement supporting 90 funded health departments (50 state/DC and 40 local/territory recipients) to collect and use overdose data for a three-year period to help reduce overdose deaths and focus on populations at greatest risk. Comments on this information collection are open through February 13, 2026; the notice notes an estimated 83,391 drug overdose deaths in 2024 and a nearly 27% decline in overdose deaths between 2023 and 2024.
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