About 2,500 homeless people died in Los Angeles County in 2023, perishing at a rate of 6.9 per day, health officials reported today.

Drug or alcohol overdoses were the cause of 45% of those deaths. Of those, 70% involved fentanyl, the LA Times' Doug Smith reports.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-06/homeless-deaths-in-l-a-county-are-leveling-off-but-still-nearly-seven-per-day