Big news in Kentucky's fight against drugs.

Today, Governor Andy Beshear announced overdose deaths decreased by more than 30% last year.

2024 was the third year in a row for a decrease in Kentucky.

The latest Kentucky drug overdose fatality report also shows a decrease in the number of black Kentuckians to die from an overdose by more than 37%.

Something we haven't seen in previous years.

Still, 1410 Kentucky ins died of an overdose last year.

Of those deaths, fentanyl was present and 62% of them, and methamphetamine was present in 50%.

Governor Beshear says he thinks this may be a watershed moment in Kentucky's drug fight.

We have been waiting for not just a little hope, but a lot of hope.

And I think this gave us a lot of hope.

Now our challenge has got to be to to see something big the next year and the next one after that.

Because if we can continue this momentum, we can be headed to a much better place.

And as a dad of two teenagers, I want us to get to a much better place where I, or any parent am not worried that you might get a call totally unsuspecting with some of these dangerous drugs out there being laced in other things.

We want to see a better world where we don't lose any of our people to an overdose.