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Local Coroner Reports Eight Drug Overdose Deaths In 24 Hour Period

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published October 29, 2019 at 5:18 AM EDT
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The Franklin County Coroner's office is reporting another spike in drug overdose deaths. 

Eight people died of overdoses during a 24-hour period that ended Monday. Four were in Whitehall, and three were in one house on Powell Avenue. The office urges addicts to get treatment. 

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Jim Letizia
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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