Still coming on strong people. Ohio is now in the top 5 states for overdosing.




Snip; Ohio was among 14 states in the United States that showed a “statistically significant” increase in drug overdose deaths from 2013 to 2014, according to a report recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report also stated that more people died in the United States of drug overdoses in 2014 than in any previous year.

The drug death rate in Ohio increased by 18.3 percent from 2013 to 2014.

There were 2,347 drug deaths in Ohio in 2013, which is 20.8 per 100,000 population, adjusted for age.

There were 2,744 drug deaths in Ohio in 2014, or an age-adjusted rate of 24.6 per 100,000 population.

In the United States, drug overdose deaths totalled 47,055 in 2014. Of those, 28,647


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