The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s office released updated numbers of people who died of drug overdose in October and a common link among most is fentanyl.
A total of 35 people died in October, but that number may rise as they wait on lab results on 14 others.
Of those 35 cases, 17 were city of Cleveland residents, 16 were from the suburbs and two cases were from out of the county: one in Akron and one in Jefferson.
The victims ranged in age from 23 to 76.
Additional data shows 23 of the 35 people who died were male, 12 female and while most were white, the death toll included three LatinX and 13 African Americans.
This public health crisis has now spread from the suburbs to the inner city and the rate of African American deaths involving fentanyl is 35% of all victims in 2022, a rate higher than all preceding years.
Monica Robins reports: [ Ссылка ]
