Kentucky Overdose Deaths Still Increasing, but Rate of Increase is Slowing
There has been a great deal of analysis in the national media in the last week about the most recent provisional overdose death count released by the CDC. For the nation as a whole, it found a year over year increase of 6.6%. For Kentucky, provisional data shows that we are still increasing in total number of overdose deaths but a) at a slower rate than national average, b) at a slower rate than many neighboring states, and c) at a significantly slower rate than the previous