Ky. County with the highest mortality rate with the highest overdose is a strong decline

Bath County, Ky. (Wkyt) – During the team Kentucky on Thursday, governor Andy Beshear announced that Kentucky decreased by 30.2 percent from 2023.

This information comes from Kentuckys 2024 drug overdose report.

As early as 2022, Bath County saw the highest mortality rate of the overdose per capita in the entire Commonwealth.

Now things are looking for this piece of small town of America.

“Futures Hell. The Futures Hell for Bath County,” said Bath County's forensic doctor, Andrew Owens.

Owens said that the county saw 20 deaths from overdose in 2022, but this number has dropped considerably since then. When we approach half the point of 2025, he said that the district only had an overdose death this year.

“We don't want to be an overdose death here in this district. Listen that it is only one if only one is made in comparison to 20 changes. We are going in the right direction,” he said.

Owens said that the containment of the deaths of drug overdoses in Bath County was an increase in drug education within schools.

“There was a shift. The drugs are not welcome here and that is the attitude,” said Owens.

The most recent overdose report said that Fentanyl is still the leading drug at overdosing deaths here in Kentucky, which Owens said he also sees at the local level.

According to the 2024 report, Lee County now has the highest mortality rate per capita.

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