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Jan 22, 2021 Amid the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year, it seems news coverage and the general focus on accidental drug overdoses and the opioid epidemic have taken a back seat. Sadly, though, the drug abuse problem has not gone away. In fact, increased isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted even more severely people with substance-use disorders, local mental health officials said recently. In Trumbull County, accidental drug overdose deaths increased in 2020 over data from 2019 and 2018. Thankfully, the number has not risen to the highs of 2017, according to data provided...

rfox@tribtoday.com Increased isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people with substance use disorders, local mental health officials said. In Trumbull County, accidental drug overdose deaths increased in 2020, over data from 2019 and 2018, but the number has not risen to the highs of 2017, according to data provided by local health officials. There were 90 confirmed fatal overdose deaths in Trumbull County in 2020, and 17 unofficial drug overdose deaths. If the unofficial tallies are confirmed, there will have been 107 overdose deaths in the county in 2020. In 2019, there ...