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WAYNE COUNTY HAD 36 OVERDOSE DEATHS IN 2025

(Wayne County, IN)--The Wayne County Coroner’s Office released some final statistics for 2025 on Wednesday.  The office said that there were 36 drug overdose deaths in the county last year.  That’s on par with the number of overdose deaths in both 2023 and ’24.  The most local overdose deaths in the last ten years came in 2017, when there were 63.  The office also said that there were three homicides last year and 63 deaths that were ruled accidental.