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Heroin Overdoses Cause 3 Crashes in North Carolina City in 1 Week

Police say drivers overdosing on heroin have caused three crashes in a city in North Carolina in the past week. Police Capt. Michael Kirk told media outlets that no one was seriously injured in the crashes in High Point, but …

County Coroner in Pennsylvania Sounds Alarm After Cluster of Heroin ODs

York County’s coroner is sounding the alarm after reporting three suspected heroin overdoses in a span of five hours. Coroner Pamela Gay took to Twitter to report the suspect overdoses, writing, “If you or a loved one is an IV …

Pennsylvania Gov. Calls $34M Request for Heroin Treatment ‘A Start’

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s $34 million budget request to address Pennsylvania’s opioid abuse crisis is “a start” as the state begins to understand the scope and need of a statewide epidemic, he told reporters on June 2. Speaking briefly to …