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South Euclid police find addicts carrying heroin antidote during arrest


Tuesday, January 17, 2017

by ABC News 5 Cleveland

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio - Signs an epidemic is worsening here in Northeast Ohio: local police departments are now finding more than Heroin when they arrest addicts.

The arrests are becoming more and more common for heroin including possession, use, sale, but the most recent, here in South Euclid, stood out. 

Police arrested two young men, and they had heroin, tourniquets, a spoon and a kit, containing heroin's antidote - Naloxone complete with a carrying case from Project DAWN. That's the wellness program aimed to help combat the heroin epidemic.

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