Officials at Clark County Public Health are disputing a presentation given to the Vancouver City Council on Monday evening that claimed the region’s opioid-related overdoses were dropping.
Deaths linked to opioid overdoses are not dropping in any sort of statistically significant way, said Public Health Director Dr. Alan Melnick, who said that they’ve been stable.
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