Ohio s plan to distribute an anti-OD drug triggers questions, claims of racial bias Terry DeMio, Cincinnati Enquirer
Ohio is launching a targeted deployment of naloxone, sending 60,000 doses of the antidote for an opioid overdose to 23 counties. The idea is to get ahead of a usual summertime rise in overdoses. Yet one of its partners in distributing the naloxone questions the equity of the plan, calling it racially biased.
Harm Reduction Ohio says the state’s plan excludes some areas that have high overdose death rates for Black Ohioans, including parts of Cincinnati and Columbus. It also charges the plan gives an insufficient amount of the drug to rural areas.
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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.
Hamilton County, once an epicenter of the nationwide opioid epidemic, is likely to end up with a drop in overdose deaths in 2020, a year that saw record-high death tolls from overdoses across the nation during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Hamilton County Addiction Response Coalition started planning early in 2020 how to mitigate the damage from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and forced isolation on progress that had been made in the opioid epidemic. The coalition is a partnership among public and private, health, government, first-responders and faith-based organizations and others.
Just weeks after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a record high number of overdose deaths, more than 81,000 across the country from June 2019 to May 2020, and weeks after Ohio s Scientific Committee on Opioid Prevention and Education reported a surge in Ohio, preliminary counts in Hamilton County s overdose deaths for 2020 dropped 11% from 2019.
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