Crime & Safety
17 Newton Residents Died Opioid Related Deaths Last Year: Report
The State released a report indicating only 2 people overdosed on opioids in Brookline last year. Newton had 17 such deaths.
NEWTON, MA — Last year 17 people in Newton overdosed on opioids, according to a new report by the state. That number is up from the seven who died in 2015, although those numbers are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
There were no reported opioid-related deaths in neighboring Brookline in 2012, but one in 2013 and one in 2014, three in 2015 and two in 2016. Boston topped the charts with 196 opioid related deaths in 2016, up from 150 the year before and 70 in 2012.
The table below lists the confirmed all intents opioid-related overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each
community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2016.
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