"The Summit County Coroner’s office handled a record-breaking number of cases in 2021, and Summit County Coroner Regan Wood does not like the trajectory as it relates to substance use and alcohol.
Her office investigated 97 deaths in 2021, which is 10 (11.5% increase) more than the previous record of 87 deaths in 2015.
...It’s these accidental deaths — specifically the 18 deaths related to substance use and alcohol— that she is worried about.
Nine of those were drug overdoses and five of those overdoses tested for fentanyl in their system.
Wood said the nine alcohol-related deaths, or people who “drank themselves to death,” was also alarming.
Wood said these alcohol-related cases involved people between the ages of 30 and 55...Read all!
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