Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky are on the decline.

Those are the findings of the 2025 Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Report.

Just released.

The new numbers show a 22.9% decline in drug overdose deaths in Kentucky from 2024 to last year.

It's the fourth straight decline and it's a 50% decline from the year 2021.

Overall, 1110 Kentuckians died of overdoses, but that's the smallest number since the year 2014.

Today, Governor Andy Beshear talked about the work that made the decrease possible.

Our fourth straight year and decreases in drug overdose deaths.

It's so important with what we've lived through.

If you're Kentucky and you've watched three, 4 or 5 people, you now die from an overdose.

And that hit our state so hard.

The last several years we've been close to or even, almost leading the nation in the decrease.

And I'm grateful to everybody who's had a part of it.

I think that the amount of treatment and recovery services is a significant piece.

Of it, fewer people who are going through recovery are coming in and out using again and passing away.

I think expanding Medicaid to treatment services was a game changer, and that happened before I was here.