Deaths fall for White residents, increase for Black residents A total of 2,265 overdose deaths of Ohio residents have been confirmed and reported so far in 2023, according to data in the Ohio Department of Health mortality data. That’s almost exactly the same...
Opioid deaths OneOhio opioid settlement boards lack Black members Blacks residents accounted for 20% of opioid overdose deaths in Ohio. That’s a record share of our state’s opioid-related deaths and huge increase from just a few years ago. Black...
Overdose Racial Gap Larger Than Ever What does it mean? In the early years of the overdose epidemic, Ohio’s White residents died at much higher rates than Black residents. Today, the opposite is true. Since 2019, Black resident overdose death rates have exceeded those...
Racial gap in overdose death widens dramatically OneOhio opioid settlement board has almost no minority representation Overdose death hit a record level in 2021. But this obscures what’s really happening. Overdose death rates for White residents of Ohio...
David Helm II, a fourth-year Ohio State University student, recently worked on a successful anti-stigma project for Harm Reduction Ohio. This summer, David will be a public health advocacy fellow at Harm Reduction Ohio. Today, we re-publish an insightful post that...
Racial gap flipped from white to black in 2019 Became more extreme in 2020 About 800 Black Ohio residents died of drug overdoses, shattering the previous record of 651 deaths in 2019. By contrast, overdose deaths for White residents increased from last year but...
