TL;DR: The Times tries to sell a narrative, but when you look at their sources, you find that:
1) They give no data specific to Dayton; they take countywide data and attribute all the "positives" to Dayton;
2) The data is utterly wrong. They simultaneously claim that there were 566 overdose deaths in 2016 in Montgomery County alone, but their other source for Ohio as a whole says that 2016 had only 564 overdose deaths in 2016 in the entire state of Ohio.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 11.4 ms ] thread1) They give no data specific to Dayton; they take countywide data and attribute all the "positives" to Dayton;
2) The data is utterly wrong. They simultaneously claim that there were 566 overdose deaths in 2016 in Montgomery County alone, but their other source for Ohio as a whole says that 2016 had only 564 overdose deaths in 2016 in the entire state of Ohio.
Something literally doesn't add up.