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2017 Interim Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission? Covers the period of January – June 2017? Medical Examiners measure deaths in two ways:o Drug death – the drug caused the deatho Drug occurrence – at least one drug is identified in the decedent.? Of the 104,519 Florida deaths during the first six months of 2017, toxicology reports determined there were 6,110 drug related deaths (where drugs identified in the report were the cause or present at death).Drug Related Deaths in the past 8 years interim reports (Jan. – June)YearOverall DeathsDrug DeathsPercentage2017 interim2016 interim104,579102,1736,1105,392 5.8% 5.3%2015 interim100,1894,6824.7%2014 interim94,7494,0234.2%2013 interim 94,0004,1594.4%2012 interim85,8104,1264.8%2011 interim90,5104,3294.8%2010 interim89,8004,150 4.6%Total drug-related deaths increased by 11 percent (604) more when compared with the first half of 2016.Overall prescription and opioid drug deaths were up in this report. While deaths caused by fentanyl decreased by 44 in this report, deaths by fentanyl analogs increased significantly more than 400% (695 more deaths). Deaths caused by heroin increased 24% (100 more deaths).Deaths caused by oxycodone decreased by 6% (21 less).Deaths caused by cocaine increased 59% (383 more).While U-47700 was not specifically one of the drugs captured in this report, many ME districts reported the drug voluntarily. There were 80 U-47700 drug related deaths in this report, but data is incomplete. All districts will begin capturing U-47700 deaths in the 2018 report. Drugs that caused the most deaths were:Cocaine (1,029)Fentanyl analogs (840)Morphine (679)Fentanyl (667)Benzodiazepines (658)Heroin (509)Alcohol (490)Oxycodone (306)Methamphetamine (213)Top fentanyl drug deaths by ME DistrictJacksonville, 146West Palm Beach, 99Ft. Lauderdale, 67Miami, 66Top fentanyl analog drug deaths by ME DistrictWest Palm Beach, 174Ft. Lauderdale, 129Sarasota, 110Top heroin drug deaths by ME DistrictWest Palm Beach, 110Ft. Lauderdale, 84Jacksonville, 58Top oxycodone drug deaths by ME DistrictSt. Petersburg, 36Ft. Lauderdale, 34Melbourne, 32Top Cocaine drug deaths by ME DistrictWest Palm Beach, 178Ft. Lauderdale, 122Jacksonville, 112Miami, 110 ................
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