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The number of fatal overdoses that the state police responded to are down from last year.

2014 - 112 deaths
2015 - 178 deaths
2016 - 194 deaths
2017- 147 deaths *
2018- 112 deaths *

Opioids include heroin, opioid-based prescription painkillers and other unspecified opioids. Data for 2014-2016 are from DPH and are preliminary and subject to change, as a large number of death certificates have yet to be assigned a final cause of death code.

* Data taken from the State Police and the Plymouth County Drug Task Force Database.

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