Abstract
Bhullar MK, Franks SD, Gilson TP. Decline in fentanyl-related overdose deaths and subsequent change in decedent demographic characteristics: trends in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 2023-2025. Public Health Rep. Published online April 23, 2026. Original doi: 10.1177/00333549261435474
This article has been updated to correct “fentanyl” to “cocaine” in the following sentence in the Discussion section:
However, the increased percentage of cocaine-related overdose deaths among Black males in our study indicates a need for close monitoring and a possible return to drug use trends seen before the opioid epidemic—the crack epidemic—which largely affected non-Hispanic Black men residing in US metropolitan cities.21