Opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts are down an estimated 11% in the first six months of 2019, compared with the same period last year. The preliminary data from the state Department of Public Health show a trend that started in 2016, despite a continued increase in the presence of fentanyl in fatalities. It’s now in 92% of […]
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Connecticut EMTs Gather More Detailed Overdose Data
Paramedic Peter Canning walks through Hartford’s Pope Park. He picks up empty heroin baggies as he passes by athletic fields, a public pool and a picnic pavilion where a few people appear to nod off. The pavilion place is really the place to go,” Canning says. “The people are down there using right now, so […]
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Springfield, Mass., Health Official Wants More Data On Opioid Overdose Deaths
A health official in Springfield, Massachusetts, said she was surprised by a jump in the number of opioid overdose deaths in the city, and she doesn’t know why it happened. Annual deaths from opioid overdoses in Springfield almost doubled in 2018 — from 56 to 108. That’s while they declined in a majority of cities […]
