A year’s-worth of data gathered by the Community Overdose Action Team, formed to combat the crisis, illustrates the opioid epidemic’s impact on Montgomery County during 2017.
Here are some of the numbers:
566
Number who died of unintentional overdoses
81
Number of people who died in May, the highest monthly total
68
Percentage of overdose fatalities who were male
82.2
Percentage of overdose fatalities who were white
66
Percentage of dead who had a fentanyl analogues in their system
3,920
Number of emergency department visits for overdoses
3,637
Number of law enforcement calls for overdoses
Overdose emergency
calls, 2017
| Jurisdiction | Overdoses |
|---|---|
| Dayton | 1,894 |
| Trotwood | 288 |
| Harrison Twp. | 251 |
| Riverside | 240 |
| Huber Heights | 124 |
| Miamisburg | 114 |
| Jefferson Twp. | 112 |
| Miami Twp. | 91 |
| Vandalia | 71 |
| West Carrollton | 71 |
| New Lebanon | 69 |
| Butler Twp. | 55 |
| Kettering | 45 |
| Centerville | 34 |
| Washington Twp. | 33 |
| Clayton | 25 |
| Germantown | 21 |
| Moraine | 20 |
| Courts and jail | 16 |
| Brookville | 14 |
| Clay Twp. | 13 |
| Englewood | 11 |
| Phillipsburg | 5 |
| Perry Twp. | 5 |
| German Twp. | 4 |
| Union | 3 |
| MetroParks | 2 |
Sources: Montgomery County Coroner’s Office, Ohio Department of Health, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County
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