A report from Monroe County Medical Examiner Nadia Granger illustrate rapidly increasing death toll from the use of heroin, opioids, fentanyl and related drugs.
In 2011, those drugs were blamed for 11 deaths in the ten-county Rochester region.
That number grew annually to 95 in 2014, then shot up to 206 last year. 169 of those deaths were in Monroe County. The greatest concentration was on Rochester’s north side.
The data release pre-empted a planned news conference by Democratic candidate for Sheriff Todd Baxter, who planned to say there was a lack of data from the county about the opioid epidemic.