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Table 1 Top 20 US counties for total drug overdose death rate based on age-adjusted rates, 2019

From: Descriptive study: the novel “full spectrum people-with-opioid-use-disorder care model”

Ranking

County

County code

Deaths

Population

Adjusted age rate

1

Scioto County, OH

39,145

86

75,314

129.4

2

Cabell County, WV

54,011

105

91,945

128.6

3

Washington Parish, LA

22,117

51

46,194

116.1

4

Baltimore city, MD

24,510

731

593,490

114.6

5

Fayette County, IN

18,041

21

23,102

106.8

6

Raleigh County, WV

54,081

69

73,361

103.7

7

Logan County, WV

54,045

31

32,019

103.4

8

Kanawha County, WV

54,039

149

178,124

90.4

9

Fayette County, WV

54,019

31

42,406

88.2

10

Gallia County, OH

39,053

23

29,898

87.0

11

Hancock County, WV

54,029

22

28,810

86.1

12

Wayne County, IN

18,177

49

65,884

83.3

13

St. Louis city, MO

29,510

252

300,576

80.7

14

Salem County, NJ

34,033

42

62,385

80.0

15

Greenup County, KY

21,089

27

35,098

77.0

16

Cecil County, MD

24,015

74

102,855

76.0

17

Cheatham County, TN

47,021

28

40,667

71.5

18

Wayne County, WV

54,099

27

39,402

70.6

19

Cape May County, NJ

34,009

52

92,039

68.8

20

Rio Arriba County, NM

35,039

25

38,921

67.6

  1. Source: CDC Wonder Online Database