Charlotte Mecklenburg Police and local health center officials are concerned about an uptick in Fentanyl overdose deaths in 2021, officials with the department said during a news conference yesterday. There was a 5% increase in overdose deaths in Charlotte-Mecklenburg in 2021, which is not as bad as 2019 where there was a 32% spike, officials said. Where the situation has gotten worse is with the number of calls they are seeing, up by about 40 per month.
