Between 2008 and 2017, Dallas County experienced drug and alcohol-induced deaths 0.17% less frequently than the nation as a whole. Compared to the 13 other counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Dallas County’s percentage of drug and alcohol-induced deaths at 12.54% is actually the second-lowest percentage of drug and alcohol-induced deaths in the area. Rockwall County has an impressively low rate of 10.20%, and Collin County has a percentage very similar to that of Dallas County and the nation at 12.72%. Other counties in the area have much higher rates, many of them around 14%, with some counties as high as 17%.