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Ventura County saw a spike in overdose deaths in 2020, driven largely by a powerful synthetic opioid, a new report shows.
Fatal overdoses reached 217 in 2020, a jump of more than 45% compared to the prior year, according to an annual report from the Ventura County Medical Examiner s Office.
The tally jumped by 68 since 2019, when 149 fatal cases were reported. The surge in 2020 easily topped annual totals for the past five years. Overdose deaths had previously peaked at 170 in 2018, county data shows.
Most overdose deaths last year were accidental: 203 out of 217 cases. The number of suicidal overdoses, meanwhile, dropped during 2020 to 12, down by five from 17 suicidal cases reported in 2019.
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