April 26, 2021 |Â addiction, covid-19
Anne Trinh, Community Engagement Specialist at the Center for HOPES and Senior Program Manager of the Addiction Innovation Fund, is quoted in a story about the dramatic rise in drug overdose deaths in 2020. More than 87,000 Americans died of overdoses between October 2019 and September 2020 — the highest 12-month overdose death toll ever recorded.
More than 5,000 Ohioans died of overdoses during this period, a 24% increase over the previous year. Ms. Trinh notes that the opioid epidemic was already hitting Ohio hard before COVID-19. The effects of the pandemic exacerbated the situation and reversed any small gains that had been made.
Read the full article: CDC reports record number of overdose deaths over 12-month period (Toledo Blade, 4/24/21)