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Ohio shows biggest decline in OD deaths in U.S.
Posted on: February 5, 2019
"The figures are tentative, but they show that Ohio might have turned the corner in combating drug overdose deaths.
The Buckeye state’s drop of 21.4 percent was the biggest in the nation in a new provisional count of fatal overdoses from July 2017 through June 2018 released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Separately, Ohio Department of Health preliminary data show a 34 percent decline from January to June 2018, from the same six months in 2017, down to 1,812 overdose deaths statewide."
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