West Virginia still leads the nation in overdose deaths [Register-Herald.com]

Samantha Sangenito 12/15/164:00 AM

According to recently released Centers For Disease Control and Prevention statistics, West Virginia still leads the nation for overdose deaths.

More than double the national average, West Virginia saw 39.3 deaths per 100,000 residents in 2015.

Rates in southern West Virginia are substantially higher — In Raleigh County, the rate is 78.7 and in Wyoming County, the rate is 108.3.

These statistics were reviewed Tuesday at a West Virginians for Affordable Health Care forum in Huntington, a city that’s all too familiar with the epidemic. Huntington, a city with a population of just more than 49,000, saw 26 heroin overdoses in less than six hours Aug. 15.

[For more of this story, written by Wendy Holdren, go to http://www.register-herald.com...92-03c20c6883bb.html]

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