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Local Coroner Reports Another Spike In Drug Overdose Deaths

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The Franklin County Coroner's Office has issued a warning after a spike in drug overdose deaths. 

The office says six people died over the weekend in Columbus and Whitehall.  The majority have been linked to fentanyl. Officials are asking users and their friends and family to carry the overdose antidote naloxone. 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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