Opioid-related deaths in Chicago this year are on pace to match those in 2021, when a record number of people died from overdoses in the city, health officials say.
There have been 632 opioid-related deaths recorded in Chicago through June this year, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and the Chicago Department of Public Health. There were 656 opioid overdose deaths reported in the city through the same period in 2021.
