Evaluating opioid overdose using the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2016

Unintentional opioid overdose death rates have increased nearly 500% in Connecticut from 1999 to 2016, resulting in a major public health crisis. Two primary types of opioids have been implicated in these fatalities – illicit and pharmaceutical. The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiology of fatal unintentional opioid overdoses by type. Using the National Violent Death Reporting System, rates of unintentional opioid-related...