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Ohioans without opioid addiction treatment near home are less likely to maintain their sobriety, and Ohio State University researchers found these provider deserts throughout Franklin County.
An area is considered a desert if the distance from a person s home to a provider is a mile or more away, a two-minute drive by car or more than 30 minutes away on public transportation, according to a study published Wednesday in the medical journal PLOS ONE. Research has shown the likelihood of someone staying in treatment drops by up to 50% when a treatment provider is more than a mile away. The main message is that opioid treatment deserts exist in Franklin County, said Dr. Ayaz Hyder, an assistant professor in Ohio State’s College of Public Health who led the study. They are spread out; they re not concentrated in one specific area … they are everywhere.
Drug overdoses killed more Ohioans in 2020 than in at least the previous 14 years, a grim milestone likely made possible by the pandemic.
At least 5,001 Ohioans died of overdoses last year, according to a Dispatch analysis of mortality data from the Ohio Department of Health as of Tuesday. The closest overdose deaths have come to jumping 5,000 was in 2017 when 4,854 were recorded.
About 797 people who lost their lives to a drug overdose in 2020 were Franklin County residents, state data shows. The total number of overdose deaths in 2020 is likely to increase since county coroners have six months to investigate, meaning 2020 overdose deaths could climb further.