Opioids Killed More People In One Ohio County Last Year Than Car Accidents, Homicides, & Suicides Combined
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 12, 2017
As the national opioid crisis rages in the midwest and along the northern and mid-Atlantic states, Cuyahoga County has reported yet another disturbing statistic about the growing death toll from one of America’s most pressing health crises: Last year, deaths from drug overdoses in the county – the bulk of which were caused by powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl – surpassed deaths from homicides, suicides and car crashes combined.
The county medical examiner’s office in Cuyahoga, which abuts the southern shore of the Ohio River, said the country, which is centered around Cleveland, recorded 666 overdose deaths lasts year. Officials see no end in sight to the crisis and are projecting deaths to climb in 2017, according to the Cleveland.com.
“What we’ve seen over the beginning of 2017 is it’s getting off to a start that’s worse than 2016,” Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Gilson said last week in a news release.
Here’s a rundown of data from the county medical examiner’s office, as compiled by Cleveland.com.
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