28-05-2017 21:14 via 10tv.com

Report: Ohio had more than 4,000 overdose deaths in 2016

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A survey of Ohio county coroners has found more than 4,000 people died from drug overdoses last year in a state among the hardest hit by a heroin and opioid epidemic.The Columbus Dispatch reported Sunday that the state's 4,149 unintentional fatal overdoses in 2016 are a 36 percent increase from the previous year when just over 3,000 deaths were reported.Citing an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation that used statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control an
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