Drug overdoses killed 4,329 Ohioans in 2016, the
second-highest death rate in the nation, reported The Crime Report. That’s up 24 percent over the 3,310
drug deaths the previous year, according to a report released Thursday by the
federal government, reports
the Columbus Dispatch. Despite increased government spending, Ohio’s
rate of drug-overdose deaths, 39.1 per 100,000 people, trailed only West Virginia’s
52 per 100,000 population.
The powerful and deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl is
largely to blame for the exploding number of deaths, according the National
Centers for Health Statistics. “We’ve got a big problem in Ohio,” said Dublin
Police Chief Heinz von Eckartsberg. First responders in Dublin had to use two
doses of the drug antidote naloxone to revive a 20-year-old man earlier this
week and 11 doses to revive another man last month, suggesting they’d taken
fentanyl. Statewide, emergency responders have administered more than 43,000
doses of naloxone this year, up from 31,800 in all of 2016.
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