Document Type
Report
Publisher
Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center
Publication Date
7-2025
Abstract/ Summary
This report documents suspected and confirmed fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses in Maine during July 2025 as well as for the period January 2024–July 2025. The total number of confirmed and suspected fatal overdoses during 2025 is 227, 27.7% lower than the total confirmed fatal overdoses for January–July 2024, 314. The total number of nonfatal overdoses during January–July 2025 is 4,297, 15.0% lower than the total reported nonfatal overdoses for January–July 2024, 5,054. Monthly proportions of 2025 fatalities from January to July averaged 5.0%, slightly lower than the 5.7% in 2024 and the 6.1% in 2023. Monthly proportions in 2025 ranged from a high of 6.1% in February to a low of 4.1% in May.
Repository Citation
Sorg, Marcella H.; Soucier, Daniel S.; and Sarker, Prianka Maria, "Maine Monthly Overdose Report for July 2025" (2025). Health & Public Safety. 90.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mcspc_healthsafety/90
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