Boone County has recently organized the Boone County Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review Team and Boone County Coroner Justin Sparks explained the team’s purpose in detail. Why Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review? Even prior to the pandemic that began in 2020, death rates for suicide have continued to rise both …
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GUS PEARCY THE LEBANON REPORTER Justin Sparks deals in data. “The data doesn’t lie,” he says. “I collect as much data as I can so I can be responsible and prudent in making decisions for the office. I want to back up everything I say with data and science.” Boone …
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