'Challenging' high rate of fatal Indigenous overdoses

The rate of Indigenous overdose deaths in Victoria is three times higher than non-Indigenous cases. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

The rate of Indigenous overdose deaths in Victoria was three times higher than non-Indigenous fatal overdoses, a new coroners report has found.

Seventy-six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people died from an overdose in Victoria between January 2018 and December 2021, the state's first collection of such data showed.