Health leaders in Tennessee are concerned that while so much attention has been put on the coronavirus pandemic within the last year, another major health crisis is sliding under the radar: the drug epidemic.New statistics from the Tennessee Department of Health show deaths by overdose are increasing statewide every year.In 2019, overdose claimed the lives of 2,089 Tennesseans, which is 15 percent more deaths than in 2018.Kristy Tipton, division director for Turning Point says data shows the rise in overdoses is a trend that has been driven by illicit fentanyl and stimulants and isolation and lonliness from tnhe COVID-pandemic.