Four Cincinnati area counties saw double-digit percentage leaps in overdose deaths in 2020, preliminary records show.
A surge in overdose deaths experienced across the country is a scenario that addiction treatment providers and advocates predicted as efforts to mitigate the opioid epidemic were altered or swept away while the COVID-19 pandemic raged across America.
Northern Kentucky’s Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties as of Tuesday were on track to face a 20% jump in overdose deaths over 2019, Kentucky Injury Prevention Research Center records show. Butler County in Southwest Ohio had a 10.6% rise in suspected or confirmed overdose deaths over last year, coroner s records show.