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Union County Deputies Getting Naloxone

Union County Sheriff's deputies are being equipped with the opiate overdose antidote Naloxone. Deputies say there have been 10 cases of people overdosing on heroin or other opiates so far this year, and they expect more. The Ohio Department of Health says more than 21 hundred people died of accidental drug overdoses in 2013. Three-quarters involved opioids like heroin. A new state law has widened access to the antidote.

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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