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Michigan opioid OD deaths jumped 54% between 2015 and 2016

Friday, July 14, 2017

by M Live Michigan

LANSING, Mich. -- Overdose deaths from opioids other than heroin jumped 54 percent between 2015 and 2016, and have more than tripled since 2012, according to data released Thursday by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

A total of 1,365 died from opioid overdoses in 2016, compared to 884 in 2015 and 426 in 2012.

That doesn't include include heroin deaths, which actually went down from 391 in 2015 to 324 in 2016. There were 222 heroin deaths in 2012.

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