An Ashtabula man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and other charges, including possession of and trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, after a three-year drug investigation.
ASHTABULA, Ohio — An Ashtabula man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and other charges, including possession of and trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, after a three-year drug investigation, according to a news release from the Crime Enforcement Agency of Ashtabula County.
Between 2015 and 2020, the average age-adjusted rate of unintentional drug overdoses in Ashtabula County was 33.8 deaths per 100,000 residents, compared to Scioto County, which had the highest death rate of 83.4 deaths per 100,000 people, according to a July 2022 report from the Ohio Department of Health. Trumbull County, just south of Ashtabula County, had a death rate of 61.4, nearly double that of Ashtabula.
Among unintentional drug overdose deaths, fentanyl surpassed heroin as the primary cause of overdose deaths in 2016 and has been largely trending upwards in Ohio since, ODH data shows. There were 4,041 total deaths related to fentanyl in 2020, a 32% increase over the previous year. Three people were indicted in Ashtabula County in 2020 for drug overdose deaths, including a woman arrested for selling heroin and carfentanil to a man who had a lethal amount of carfentanil in his system, and two men indicted for allegedly providing a man with methamphetamine and fentanyl, both of which were found in a lethal amount in his bloodstream after his 2019 death.
As reported by News 5 last week, Cleveland received $2.8 million over the next 18 years, which city officials said will be broadly used for opioid abuse prevention and treatment as well as mental health and addiction services.
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