opioid deaths

While there has been so much focus on the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year or so, 2020 quietly became a record-breaking year for accidental drug intoxication deaths in Connecticut. Medical experts – as well as those who have been touched by tragedy – believe the problem is continuing to worsen in 2021.

The state has released some startling numbers about the number of opioid overdose deaths in Connecticut.

There were more than 1,000 accidental overdose deaths in Connecticut in 2019 and the vast majority of them involved opioids, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.