Report: Drug overdoses top cause of accidental injury deaths in Ohio

Accidental drug overdoses killed a record number of Ohioans in 2011, a new state report shows (source: “OD deaths still Ohio's top killer in accidents,” Cincinnati Enquirer, April 29, 2013). 

The toll kept overdoses as the state’s leading cause for accidental injury deaths for the fifth consecutive year, ahead of traffic accidents, suicides and falls. Of the 1,765 overdose deaths across the state, one in four was caused by heroin, according to the report Ohio Health Department’s Violence and Injury Prevention program.