OD REPORT BY-THE-NUMBERS
- 2,125 confirmed and estimated opioid-related overdose deaths in 2023. That’s 232 fewer than in 2022, when Massachusetts had a file 2,357 deadly opioid-related overdoses.
- The overdose loss of life fee decreased by 10% — from 33.5 per 100,000 folks in 2022 to 30.2 in 2023.
- The decline in opioid-related overdose deaths final 12 months was vital amongst white, non-Hispanic males, whose overdose loss of life fee dropped 16% between 2022 and 2023.
- However Black, non-Hispanic males noticed the speed of opioid-related overdose deaths enhance from 80 per 100,000 folks in 2022 to 84.6 in 2023.
- The state’s most rural areas continued to file the best opioid-related overdose loss of life fee at 35.6 per 100,000 residents in comparison with city, suburban, and fewer rural areas.
- Males comprised of 72% of all opioid-related overdose deaths in 2023.
- The biggest opioid-related overdose loss of life decreases in 2023 had been seen in Essex County (-21.7 p.c), Middlesex County (-20.8 p.c), Plymouth County (-18.9 p.c), and Worcester County (-16 p.c).
- Cities and cities that skilled a notable lower in opioid-related overdose deaths in 2023 in contrast with 2022 had been: Brockton, Cambridge, Falmouth, Lawrence, Leominster, Lynn, Pittsfield, Randolph, Waltham, and Wareham.
- Cities and cities that skilled a notable enhance in opioid-related overdose deaths in 2023 in contrast with 2022 had been: Holyoke and Taunton.
