The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on ED visits for overdose. Due to data quality issues, the “Overdose ED Visits Involving Medication or Drug with Potential for Dependency” state and county-level reports were not updated this month. Note there continue to be known data quality issues for May and June 2021 ED visits that are impacting the shown trends, interpret the data for these months with caution.

Suspected Overdose Deaths

There were 349 suspected overdose deaths this August compared to 359 this time last year (August 2021).

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Fentanyl-Positive Deaths

There were 281 fentanyl-positive deaths this June compared to 247 this time last year (June 2021).

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