Opioid-related emergency room visits grew by 35 percent in a year
Emergency room visits due to opioid overdose grew by 35 percent in 16 states over the past year, according to the emergency room data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Today’s data covers July 2016 to September 2017 and comes from the CDC’s Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program, which collects information on both fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses. Though overdose-related ER visits varied by region, the number increased for every demographic group. And in metropolitan areas (meaning areas around a city with a population of over 1 million), the number of overdoses grew by 54 percent.
In the Midwest, overdoses increased 109 percent in Wisconsin, 66 percent in Illinois, and 35 percent in Indiana….
