Come on Nashville, you can beat out Baltimore

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Davidson County area was featured in a grim, national report for having one of the worst overdose death rates in the country, according to a first-of-its-kind tracker by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Last year, 754 people died of overdoses in Davidson County. Based on data for areas with more than 500,000 people from February 2022 through January 2023, Davidson County’s overdose death rate is the second highest in the nation, just below Baltimore, Maryland.

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