New report shows nearly 1,500 opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts last year

DAVE:
ALSO NEW THIS MORNING...
OPIOID RELATED OVERDOSE DEATHS
ROSE FOR A SIXTH CONSECUTIVE
YEAR IN
MASSACHUSETTS.
22NEWS REPORTER HAYLEY
CROMBLEHOLME JOINS US LIVE WITH
WHAT DRUG IS AN INCREASING PART
OF THE PROBLEM.
HAYLEY:
AS OPIOID DEATHS CONTINUE TO
RISE ACROSS THE STATE, A NEW
STUDY FOUND
FENTANYL WAS INVOLVED IN AS MANY
AS THREE-QUARTERS OF THOSE
DEATHS.
THE FIGURES RELEASED FRIDAY BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SHOW
1-THOUSAND 465 CONFIRMED
UNINTENTIAL OVERDOSE DEATHS IN
2016, WITH ANOTHER 469 TO 562
SUSPECTED OPIOID RELATED DEATHS
AWAITING A
FINAL REVIEW. THE DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC HEALTH'S DATA FOUND THAT
OPIOID
RELATED DEATHS ROSE 26% FROM
2014 TO 2015. IN SPRINGFIELD,
THE
NUMBER OF UNINTENTIONAL OVERDOSE
DEATHS DOUBLED IN THAT
ONE-YEAR PERIOD.
THE REPORT FOUND A DECLINE IN
THE NUMBER OF DEATHS BLAMED ON
HEROIN,
BUT THAT WAS OFFSET BY AN
INCREASE IN FENTANYL-RELATED
DEATHS. IN

New report shows nearly 1,500 opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts last year

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