Solo drug use fuels overdose deaths in Cuyahoga County, study finds

From left: Vaishali Deo, Dan Flannery and Sarah Fulton

Crain’s Cleveland BusinessDaniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, and Vaishali Deo and Sarah Fulton, both research associates at the center, discussed their research findings, highlighting that nearly three-fourths (or 74.9%) of those who died from drug overdoses in the county between 2016 and 2020 were using alone.

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