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. 2017 Sep 1;66(34):897–903. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6634a2

FIGURE 2.

The figure above consists of four line graphs, one for each of the U.S. Census regions. The graphs show the number of deaths per 100,000 population from 1) heroin without synthetic opioids, 2) synthetic opioids without heroin, and 3) heroin and synthetic opioids combined in each region during 2006–2015.

Number of deaths per 100,000 population involving heroin without synthetic opioids, synthetic opioids without heroin, and use of both heroin and synthetic opioids, by census region* — United States, 2006–2015

* Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.