Four of five cocaine-related overdose deaths involve fentanyl Always administer naloxone when users falls asleep or pass out Cocaine adulteration is common in Ohio and has increased in the last year. The chart above tells the sad story. Overall, nearly 80% of overdose...
Reported overdose deaths up 29.5% in 2020 Increase appears to COVID-19 related The news on overdose death in Ohio keeps getting worse. Last week, Harm Reduction Ohio estimated that overdose deaths appeared to have increased 23% in the first half of 2020 versus the...
Recent levels highest level since August 2017 Carfentanil drove overdose increase in 2019 Too early to say if drug is cause of new death surge during COVID-19 Carfentanil, the ultra-potent fentanyl analog, has been the primary driver of overdose levels in Ohio since...
COVID-19 appears to have caused statewide overdose death spike in April-May-June Overdose deaths exceeded 4,000 in 2019, new data show By Dennis Cauchon President, Harm Reduction Ohio More than 4,000 Ohio residents died from drug overdoses in 2019, the third time in...
Scioto County records highest overdose death rate ever by an Ohio county Worrisome trends in many counties The counties listed above had the highest overdose death rates in Ohio in 2019, according an a harm Reduction Ohio analysis of deaths included in the Ohio...
SPECIAL REPORT: Race and Overdose in Ohio Blacks now dying at faster rate than whites Primary cause: Fentanyl-laced cocaine Longstanding racial gap in overdose death now weighs against African Americans in Ohio For the first time in decades, black Ohioans are dying...
