The Allegheny County Coroner’s Office records Allegheny County’s opioid overdose deaths on County death certificates. In 98% of Allegheny County overdose deaths, the specific drugs involved in a fatal overdose are listed on the decedent’s [...]
The Allegheny County, PA Coroner’s Office reports that official Allegheny Country 2017 drug deaths exceeded those in 2016. The County’s drug deaths from 2016 also exceeded those in 2015, which exceeded those in 2014, an [...]
Our country is in the clutches of a burgeoning opioid epidemic, and Allegheny County’s opioid crisis is exceptionally dire. Overdose deaths in Allegheny County are significantly higher than the national rate. In 2015, when the [...]