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Ohio's heroin epidemic worsens, but Zumba is not on the treatment horizon: Phillip Morris

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

by Cleveland Plain Dealer

With each passing month, it seems that the nation's opioid epidemic can't possibly get any worse. Then it does -– especially here in Ohio.

In the past two weeks, more than 200 overdoses in the Cincinnati area alone have claimed the lives of three people. Many more users likely would have died, were it not for an unprecedented, modern medical response.

he New York Times reports that in Cincinnati, medical and law enforcement officials believe the recent rash of overdoses was mostly caused by a synthetic drug called carfentanil, a tranquilizer occasionally used on elephants that has no practical uses for humans. Officials now have reached out to zoos and veterinarians to help them gain a better understanding of a drug normally used in the treatment of large animals.

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