Why the US saw a record drop in drug overdose deaths last year - Washington Examiner

Why the US saw a record drop in drug overdose deaths last year - Washington Examiner

In the summer of 2020, Ohio medical examiner Anahi Ortiz was receiving more bodies than her office could process. The cause of death wasn’t COVID-19; it was drug overdoses. Over just 36 hours, Ortiz’s small office handled nine fatal overdoses at one point. “We’ve literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on,” Ortiz told the Washington Post. The fatalities were part of a year that saw 92,478 deaths from overdoses nationwide, a record at the …