Overdose Deaths by City/Town - Mass.Gov
Number of Confirmed Unintentional/Undetermined1 Opioid-related2 Overdose Deaths by City/Town, MA Residents January 20123- December 20154 Massachusetts Department of Public Health
POSTED: FEBRUARY 2017
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Abington Acton Acushnet Adams Agawam Alford Amesbury Amherst Andover Aquinnah Arlington Ashburnham Ashby Ashfield Ashland Athol Attleboro Auburn Avon Ayer Barnstable Barre Becket Bedford Belchertown Bellingham Belmont Berkley Berlin Bernardston
2012
2013
20143
1 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 2 0 6 1 1 2 1 3 0 2 0 2
2 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 11 2 1 1 8 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0
2 3 0 2 3 0 1 2 4 1 5 1 0 0 1 2 10 1 2 1 12 0 0 2 2 2 4 1 0 0
20153 7 3 4 3 5 0 6 1 5 1 7 1 0 1 4 2 11 2 3 1 12 3 0 0 2 3 4 0 1 0 1
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Beverly Billerica Blackstone Blandford Bolton Boston Bourne Boxborough Boxford Boylston Braintree Brewster Bridgewater Brimfield Brockton Brookfield Brookline Buckland Burlington Cambridge Canton Carlisle Carver Charlemont Charlton Chatham Chelmsford Chelsea Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chicopee Chilmark Clarksburg Clinton Cohasset Colrain Concord Conway
2012
2013
20143
20153
7 1 0 0 0 64 4 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 9 0 0 0 3 5 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 0 0 0 0
4 4 0 0 0 82 2 0 0 0 4 1 5 0 27 1 1 1 3 5 4 0 2 0 1 0 3 7 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 0 0 0 0
8 12 2 0 0 106 5 0 0 0 8 1 4 0 24 2 1 0 3 8 4 0 5 0 1 1 3 7 0 0 0 6 1 0 4 3 0 0 0
12 12 3 0 2 141 8 0 2 2 9 0 11 0 47 0 3 1 3 13 6 0 6 0 0 1 5 18 0 0 0 19 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 2
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Cummington Dalton Danvers Dartmouth Dedham Deerfield Dennis Dighton Douglas Dover Dracut Dudley Dunstable Duxbury East Bridgewater East Brookfield East Longmeadow Eastham Easthampton Easton Edgartown Egremont Erving Essex Everett Fairhaven Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Florida Foxborough Framingham Franklin Freetown Gardner Georgetown Gill Gloucester Goshen
2012
2013
20143
0 1 4 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 9 1 22 4 4 0 0 6 1 2 1 0 0 1 0
0 0 6 2 3 0 3 1 0 0 6 3 1 0 4 0 5 2 6 2 0 0 1 0 5 4 28 6 6 0 1 3 2 0 4 1 0 5 0
0 0 4 7 4 0 8 0 0 0 7 2 0 2 2 0 1 4 2 7 0 0 0 0 27 1 34 8 14 0 3 11 4 2 4 2 2 5 1
20153 0 0 6 2 4 1 2 0 2 0 8 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 1 6 0 0 0 1 17 7 38 14 18 0 0 12 6 3 6 2 0 10 0 3
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Gosnold Grafton Granby Granville Great Barrington Greenfield Groton Groveland Hadley Halifax Hamilton Hampden Hancock Hanover Hanson Hardwick Harvard Harwich Hatfield Haverhill Hawley Heath Hingham Hinsdale Holbrook Holden Holland Holliston Holyoke Hopedale Hopkinton Hubbardston Hudson Hull Huntington Ipswich Kingston Lakeville Lancaster
2012
2013
20143
0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 11 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 2
0 3 2 0 0 4 1 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 8 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
0 2 2 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 34 0 0 0 2 4 5 0 0 10 4 3 2 1 3 0 4 2 1 1
20153 0 2 2 0 0 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 2 0 4 1 30 0 0 0 1 4 4 1 3 6 0 3 2 6 3 0 3 1 0 2 4
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Lanesborough Lawrence Lee Leicester Lenox Leominster Leverett Lexington Leyden Lincoln Littleton Longmeadow Lowell Ludlow Lunenburg Lynn Lynnfield Malden Manchester Mansfield Marblehead Marion Marlborough Marshfield Mashpee Mattapoisett Maynard Medfield Medford Medway Melrose Mendon Merrimac Methuen Middleborough Middlefield Middleton Milford Millbury
2012
2013
20143
0 6 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 1 1 22 0 9 0 0 2 0 2 4 0 0 2 0 11 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 0 4 1
0 9 0 2 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 3 24 2 3 25 0 12 0 4 2 0 2 4 5 0 0 0 9 1 4 2 1 6 5 0 0 2 2
0 25 2 1 0 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 39 2 2 42 2 18 0 2 0 0 8 6 2 0 2 0 13 0 4 0 0 12 5 0 2 4 4
20153 1 25 2 2 0 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 56 4 2 45 2 21 0 3 1 1 8 3 10 2 3 0 20 1 1 1 2 6 10 0 4 3 3 5
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Millis Millville Milton Monroe Monson Montague Monterey Montgomery Mount Washington Nahant Nantucket Natick Needham New Ashford New Bedford New Braintree New Marlborough New Salem Newbury Newburyport Newton Norfolk North Adams North Andover North Attleboro North Brookfield North Reading Northampton Northborough Northbridge Northfield Norton Norwell Norwood Oak Bluffs Oakham Orange Orleans Otis
2012
2013
20143
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 4 2 5 2 0 1 1 2 0 4 1 2 0 0 2 0 0
1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 27 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 5 0 1 3 0 1 0 4 1 1 1 0 2 1 0
1 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 27 0 1 0 1 5 6 1 5 3 6 1 2 11 0 1 0 5 3 5 1 0 2 0 0
20153 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 1 48 0 0 1 2 2 7 1 5 3 6 0 1 4 0 4 1 1 3 6 3 0 3 0 0 6
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Oxford Palmer Paxton Peabody Pelham Pembroke Pepperell Peru Petersham Phillipston Pittsfield Plainfield Plainville Plymouth Plympton Princeton Provincetown Quincy Randolph Raynham Reading Rehoboth Revere Richmond Rochester Rockland Rockport Rowe Rowley Royalston Russell Rutland Salem Salisbury Sandisfield Sandwich Saugus Savoy Scituate
2012
2013
20143
3 2 2 3 0 4 3 0 0 1 8 0 2 6 0 1 0 25 4 1 1 0 12 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 5 3 0 1 9 0 1
1 1 1 12 0 1 1 0 1 0 14 0 1 6 0 1 0 26 5 2 1 0 15 1 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 6 1 0 2 7 0 1
5 1 1 13 0 5 3 0 0 0 13 0 3 17 0 1 1 38 7 5 3 0 26 0 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 2 12 4 0 3 8 0 5
20153 3 2 1 9 0 4 3 0 0 0 17 0 0 20 1 1 0 41 12 4 4 2 15 0 0 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 13 5 0 2 6 0 4 7
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Seekonk Sharon Sheffield Shelburne Sherborn Shirley Shrewsbury Shutesbury Somerset Somerville South Hadley Southampton Southborough Southbridge Southwick Spencer Springfield Sterling Stockbridge Stoneham Stoughton Stow Sturbridge Sudbury Sunderland Sutton Swampscott Swansea Taunton Templeton Tewksbury Tisbury Tolland Topsfield Townsend Truro Tyngsborough Tyringham Upton
2012
2013
20143
0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 1 0 0 2 1 0 22 1 0 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 14 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 1
0 3 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 8 4 1 0 2 0 1 22 1 1 2 7 0 1 0 1 0 3 4 13 1 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 1
1 3 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 14 0 0 0 3 2 3 20 0 0 5 10 0 1 0 0 0 3 5 19 2 7 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0
20153 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 4 19 2 1 0 6 1 8 41 0 0 6 10 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 14 2 8 2 0 0 1 0 5 1 0 8
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walpole Waltham Ware Wareham Warren Warwick Washington Watertown Wayland Webster Wellesley Wellfleet Wendell Wenham West Boylston West Bridgewater West Brookfield West Newbury West Springfield West Stockbridge West Tisbury Westborough Westfield Westford Westhampton Westminster Weston Westport Westwood Weymouth Whately Whitman Wilbraham Williamsburg Williamstown Wilmington
2012
2013
20143
3 1 0 1 3 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 13 0 4 1 0 0 2
2 7 0 2 8 4 9 1 0 0 7 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 1 2 0 12 0 3 0 1 1 3
1 5 0 1 10 4 9 2 0 0 3 1 4 0 1 0 1 3 4 2 0 6 0 1 1 6 2 0 1 1 4 2 14 0 2 1 0 1 4
20153 4 6 0 4 10 2 8 2 1 0 7 1 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 1 0 3 8 0 0 0 0 2 2 24 0 6 1 0 0 8 9
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Winchendon Winchester Windsor Winthrop Woburn Worcester Worthington Wrentham Yarmouth Unknown Total
2012
2013
20143
3 0 0 7 7 28 0 1 3 1 698
1 0 0 2 6 43 0 0 7 0 918
2 4 0 3 5 56 0 1 6 1 1,321
20153 2 1 0 7 6 76 0 2 9 0 1,597
1
Unintentional poisoning/overdose deaths combine unintentional and undetermined intents to account for a change in death coding that occurred in 2005. Suicides are excluded from this analysis. 2 Opioids include heroin, opioid-based prescription painkillers, and other unspecified opioids. 3 Please note that 2014 and 2015 death data are preliminary and subject to updates. Case reviews of deaths are evaluated and updated on an ongoing basis. A large number of death certificates have yet to be assigned final cause-of-death codes. The information presented in this report only includes confirmed cases. Data updated on 01/12/2017.
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Technical Notes 1. Cases were defined using the International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) codes for mortality. The following codes were selected from the underlying cause of death field to identify poisonings/overdoses: X40-X49, Y10-Y19. All multiple cause of death fields were then used to identify an opioid-related death: T40.0, T40.1, T40.2, T40.3, T40.4, and T40.6. 2. This report tracks all opioid-related overdoses due to difficulties in reporting heroin-associated overdoses separately. Many deaths related to heroin are not specifically coded as such due to the fast metabolism of heroin into morphine. 3. To maintain consistency with NCHS reporting, we do not include the ICD-10 code F11.1, which may include opioid-related overdose deaths. Source: Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, MDPH
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POSTED: FEBRUARY 2017
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Abington Acton Acushnet Adams Agawam Alford Amesbury Amherst Andover Aquinnah Arlington Ashburnham Ashby Ashfield Ashland Athol Attleboro Auburn Avon Ayer Barnstable Barre Becket Bedford Belchertown Bellingham Belmont Berkley Berlin Bernardston
2012
2013
20143
1 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 2 0 6 1 1 2 1 3 0 2 0 2
2 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 11 2 1 1 8 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0
2 3 0 2 3 0 1 2 4 1 5 1 0 0 1 2 10 1 2 1 12 0 0 2 2 2 4 1 0 0
20153 7 3 4 3 5 0 6 1 5 1 7 1 0 1 4 2 11 2 3 1 12 3 0 0 2 3 4 0 1 0 1
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Beverly Billerica Blackstone Blandford Bolton Boston Bourne Boxborough Boxford Boylston Braintree Brewster Bridgewater Brimfield Brockton Brookfield Brookline Buckland Burlington Cambridge Canton Carlisle Carver Charlemont Charlton Chatham Chelmsford Chelsea Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chicopee Chilmark Clarksburg Clinton Cohasset Colrain Concord Conway
2012
2013
20143
20153
7 1 0 0 0 64 4 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 9 0 0 0 3 5 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 9 0 1 3 0 0 0 0
4 4 0 0 0 82 2 0 0 0 4 1 5 0 27 1 1 1 3 5 4 0 2 0 1 0 3 7 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 0 0 0 0
8 12 2 0 0 106 5 0 0 0 8 1 4 0 24 2 1 0 3 8 4 0 5 0 1 1 3 7 0 0 0 6 1 0 4 3 0 0 0
12 12 3 0 2 141 8 0 2 2 9 0 11 0 47 0 3 1 3 13 6 0 6 0 0 1 5 18 0 0 0 19 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 2
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Cummington Dalton Danvers Dartmouth Dedham Deerfield Dennis Dighton Douglas Dover Dracut Dudley Dunstable Duxbury East Bridgewater East Brookfield East Longmeadow Eastham Easthampton Easton Edgartown Egremont Erving Essex Everett Fairhaven Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Florida Foxborough Framingham Franklin Freetown Gardner Georgetown Gill Gloucester Goshen
2012
2013
20143
0 1 4 2 2 0 2 0 2 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 9 1 22 4 4 0 0 6 1 2 1 0 0 1 0
0 0 6 2 3 0 3 1 0 0 6 3 1 0 4 0 5 2 6 2 0 0 1 0 5 4 28 6 6 0 1 3 2 0 4 1 0 5 0
0 0 4 7 4 0 8 0 0 0 7 2 0 2 2 0 1 4 2 7 0 0 0 0 27 1 34 8 14 0 3 11 4 2 4 2 2 5 1
20153 0 0 6 2 4 1 2 0 2 0 8 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 1 6 0 0 0 1 17 7 38 14 18 0 0 12 6 3 6 2 0 10 0 3
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Gosnold Grafton Granby Granville Great Barrington Greenfield Groton Groveland Hadley Halifax Hamilton Hampden Hancock Hanover Hanson Hardwick Harvard Harwich Hatfield Haverhill Hawley Heath Hingham Hinsdale Holbrook Holden Holland Holliston Holyoke Hopedale Hopkinton Hubbardston Hudson Hull Huntington Ipswich Kingston Lakeville Lancaster
2012
2013
20143
0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 11 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 2
0 3 2 0 0 4 1 1 0 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 8 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
0 2 2 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 34 0 0 0 2 4 5 0 0 10 4 3 2 1 3 0 4 2 1 1
20153 0 2 2 0 0 7 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 2 0 4 1 30 0 0 0 1 4 4 1 3 6 0 3 2 6 3 0 3 1 0 2 4
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Lanesborough Lawrence Lee Leicester Lenox Leominster Leverett Lexington Leyden Lincoln Littleton Longmeadow Lowell Ludlow Lunenburg Lynn Lynnfield Malden Manchester Mansfield Marblehead Marion Marlborough Marshfield Mashpee Mattapoisett Maynard Medfield Medford Medway Melrose Mendon Merrimac Methuen Middleborough Middlefield Middleton Milford Millbury
2012
2013
20143
0 6 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 1 1 22 0 9 0 0 2 0 2 4 0 0 2 0 11 0 1 0 0 1 4 1 0 4 1
0 9 0 2 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 3 24 2 3 25 0 12 0 4 2 0 2 4 5 0 0 0 9 1 4 2 1 6 5 0 0 2 2
0 25 2 1 0 9 0 2 0 0 0 0 39 2 2 42 2 18 0 2 0 0 8 6 2 0 2 0 13 0 4 0 0 12 5 0 2 4 4
20153 1 25 2 2 0 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 56 4 2 45 2 21 0 3 1 1 8 3 10 2 3 0 20 1 1 1 2 6 10 0 4 3 3 5
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Millis Millville Milton Monroe Monson Montague Monterey Montgomery Mount Washington Nahant Nantucket Natick Needham New Ashford New Bedford New Braintree New Marlborough New Salem Newbury Newburyport Newton Norfolk North Adams North Andover North Attleboro North Brookfield North Reading Northampton Northborough Northbridge Northfield Norton Norwell Norwood Oak Bluffs Oakham Orange Orleans Otis
2012
2013
20143
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 4 2 5 2 0 1 1 2 0 4 1 2 0 0 2 0 0
1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 27 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 5 0 1 3 0 1 0 4 1 1 1 0 2 1 0
1 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 27 0 1 0 1 5 6 1 5 3 6 1 2 11 0 1 0 5 3 5 1 0 2 0 0
20153 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 1 48 0 0 1 2 2 7 1 5 3 6 0 1 4 0 4 1 1 3 6 3 0 3 0 0 6
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Oxford Palmer Paxton Peabody Pelham Pembroke Pepperell Peru Petersham Phillipston Pittsfield Plainfield Plainville Plymouth Plympton Princeton Provincetown Quincy Randolph Raynham Reading Rehoboth Revere Richmond Rochester Rockland Rockport Rowe Rowley Royalston Russell Rutland Salem Salisbury Sandisfield Sandwich Saugus Savoy Scituate
2012
2013
20143
3 2 2 3 0 4 3 0 0 1 8 0 2 6 0 1 0 25 4 1 1 0 12 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 5 3 0 1 9 0 1
1 1 1 12 0 1 1 0 1 0 14 0 1 6 0 1 0 26 5 2 1 0 15 1 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 0 6 1 0 2 7 0 1
5 1 1 13 0 5 3 0 0 0 13 0 3 17 0 1 1 38 7 5 3 0 26 0 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 2 12 4 0 3 8 0 5
20153 3 2 1 9 0 4 3 0 0 0 17 0 0 20 1 1 0 41 12 4 4 2 15 0 0 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 13 5 0 2 6 0 4 7
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Seekonk Sharon Sheffield Shelburne Sherborn Shirley Shrewsbury Shutesbury Somerset Somerville South Hadley Southampton Southborough Southbridge Southwick Spencer Springfield Sterling Stockbridge Stoneham Stoughton Stow Sturbridge Sudbury Sunderland Sutton Swampscott Swansea Taunton Templeton Tewksbury Tisbury Tolland Topsfield Townsend Truro Tyngsborough Tyringham Upton
2012
2013
20143
0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 1 0 0 2 1 0 22 1 0 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 14 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 1
0 3 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 8 4 1 0 2 0 1 22 1 1 2 7 0 1 0 1 0 3 4 13 1 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 1
1 3 1 2 1 3 1 0 2 14 0 0 0 3 2 3 20 0 0 5 10 0 1 0 0 0 3 5 19 2 7 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0
20153 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 4 19 2 1 0 6 1 8 41 0 0 6 10 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 14 2 8 2 0 0 1 0 5 1 0 8
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walpole Waltham Ware Wareham Warren Warwick Washington Watertown Wayland Webster Wellesley Wellfleet Wendell Wenham West Boylston West Bridgewater West Brookfield West Newbury West Springfield West Stockbridge West Tisbury Westborough Westfield Westford Westhampton Westminster Weston Westport Westwood Weymouth Whately Whitman Wilbraham Williamsburg Williamstown Wilmington
2012
2013
20143
3 1 0 1 3 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 13 0 4 1 0 0 2
2 7 0 2 8 4 9 1 0 0 7 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 1 2 0 12 0 3 0 1 1 3
1 5 0 1 10 4 9 2 0 0 3 1 4 0 1 0 1 3 4 2 0 6 0 1 1 6 2 0 1 1 4 2 14 0 2 1 0 1 4
20153 4 6 0 4 10 2 8 2 1 0 7 1 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 1 0 3 8 0 0 0 0 2 2 24 0 6 1 0 0 8 9
The table below lists the confirmed unintentional opioid overdose deaths that occurred to residents from each community in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2015. For 2014 and 2015, additional cases are still being confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. This report will be updated quarterly and all new confirmed cases will be included in the town by town listing below with newly confirmed cases. Year of Death
City/Town Winchendon Winchester Windsor Winthrop Woburn Worcester Worthington Wrentham Yarmouth Unknown Total
2012
2013
20143
3 0 0 7 7 28 0 1 3 1 698
1 0 0 2 6 43 0 0 7 0 918
2 4 0 3 5 56 0 1 6 1 1,321
20153 2 1 0 7 6 76 0 2 9 0 1,597
1
Unintentional poisoning/overdose deaths combine unintentional and undetermined intents to account for a change in death coding that occurred in 2005. Suicides are excluded from this analysis. 2 Opioids include heroin, opioid-based prescription painkillers, and other unspecified opioids. 3 Please note that 2014 and 2015 death data are preliminary and subject to updates. Case reviews of deaths are evaluated and updated on an ongoing basis. A large number of death certificates have yet to be assigned final cause-of-death codes. The information presented in this report only includes confirmed cases. Data updated on 01/12/2017.
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Technical Notes 1. Cases were defined using the International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) codes for mortality. The following codes were selected from the underlying cause of death field to identify poisonings/overdoses: X40-X49, Y10-Y19. All multiple cause of death fields were then used to identify an opioid-related death: T40.0, T40.1, T40.2, T40.3, T40.4, and T40.6. 2. This report tracks all opioid-related overdoses due to difficulties in reporting heroin-associated overdoses separately. Many deaths related to heroin are not specifically coded as such due to the fast metabolism of heroin into morphine. 3. To maintain consistency with NCHS reporting, we do not include the ICD-10 code F11.1, which may include opioid-related overdose deaths. Source: Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, MDPH
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