2021 looking grim, too Ohio reached a sad milestone today: the official overdose death count for 2020 went above 5,000 today. This death toll is a record for Ohio and the first time overdose deaths have exceeded 5,000 in one year. The final tally for 2020 will likely...
Drug overdose epidemic predicted. Jack Shafer, now senior media writer at Politico, wrote an article in Science 85 magazine in March 1985 that explained the science of synthetic “designer drugs” and their drugs in the illegal drug marketplace....
The highest number of fatal drug overdoses in Ohio occur on weekends but, perhaps surprisingly, deaths are fairly evenly spread throughout the week. In 2016, accidental drug overdoses killed 4,050 Ohioans. Here’s when those Ohioans died. The information is from...