WISH: Opioid Module | Wisconsin Department of Health Services

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What are opioids?
Where do the data come from?
What do the different statistics mean?

View A Guide to Interpreting Opioid Statistics, P-02084 (PDF) developed by the Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health, Office of Health Informatics to find answers to these questions.

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Wisconsin Opioid Overdose Deaths

Opioid overdose deaths have been increasing. There were over 13 times as many deaths in 2022 as in 2000. View the data.

Have questions?

Contact the Office of Health Informatics in the Division of Public Health at DHShealthstats@dhs.wisconsin.gov.

Last revised April 12, 2024