Some counties have far higher rates of drug-overdose fatalities than others. What was the number and rate of deaths in your county?

(Shaded according to number of deaths per 1,000 population in 2012. Data comes from Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the U.S. Census Bureau.)

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