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Ohio's overdose response team seeing successes

80 percent of overdose victims seeking treatment


Sunday, March 12, 2017

by Register Herald Reporter

Colerain Township Public Safety Director Daniel Meloy, who spent 25 years in law enforcement, saw a transition around 2009 in his town from cocaine and LSD to prescription pills and heroin. 

The Ohio township, with a population of 60,000, had 41 opioid-specific overdoses in 2011. The following year, the township saw 115 overdoses — a 125 percent increase. 

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