 It's 4.23 on Delaware's Afternoon News. Time for Health Watch. Drug overdose deaths are at an all-time high, with social ills, availability of lethal substances, and barriers to care all involved. Mandy Cohen, director of the CDC, said in a recent talk at Johns Hopkins that the federal agency is doing a lot to inform communities and medical systems on ways to intervene. From the CDC perspective, I think what we are investing in is first the data.