In 2014, there were 9,030 Kentucky resident emergency department (ED) visits for drug overdoses. This is an increase of 18% from the 7,664 drug overdose ED visits registered in 2013, following the drop from 2012. Note: The number of drug overdose ED visits represents instances of care (ED visits) rather than distinct patients. The state outpatient ED visit discharge data do not contain personal identifiers like names, addresses, or social security numbers in order to protect patient privacy. Thus, our counts do not necessarily correspond to the number of people who overdosed in a given year: a patient who had two overdose episodes during a given year would have two distinct ED admission records. The counts of ED admissions describe the burden of the drug overdose epidemic on the health care facilities and the insurers and allow for better capacity planning.