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. 2017 Oct 20;66(41):1119–1120. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6641a6

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The figure above shows the number of drug overdose emergency department visits in the North-Central Health District in Georgia during May and June of 2017. — Drug overdose emergency department visits,* — North-Central Health District, Georgia, May–June, 2017

* The figure depicts all emergency department visits that met the overdose syndrome definition. Syndromic surveillance data cannot be used to determine whether these visits met the counterfeit Percocet cluster case definition, but they can monitor trends in overdoses. The North-Central Health District consists of 13 counties in central Georgia (http://northcentralhealthdistrict.org/).