Ohio county offers immunity to those turning in deadly drugs

Last week, officials in Kentucky, one state to the south of OH, issued a public health advisory urging hospitals to stock up on antidotes to drug overdoses after law enforcement agencies reported illicit drugs mixed with other, legal substances were coming into the state.

“It’s the family members, the people who are about the addict, who can really intervene and not be anxious about prosecution”, says Deters.

According to The New York Times, an amount of carfentanil smaller than a snowflake can be lethal.

The number of overdose deaths in Hamilton County was almost four times as high as the number of homicides in 2015. In July, Hamilton County officials issued a warning that carfentanil had been found in local supplies of heroin after 35 overdoses across the state, including six deaths, were reported in a three-day period. Carfentanil, which is said to be something like 10,000 times as potent a painkiller as morphine, is an analog of fentanyl, which is about 80 times as potent as morphine.

According to DEA officials cited by Fox News, the administration believes that a lot of the elephant tranquilizer we’re seeing on the streets here in the U.S.is originating from China, but entering the states through Mexico. They can turn the drugs in to any law enforcement agency in the county. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and received a sample from the Cleveland Zoo.

Newtown, Ohio Police Chief Thomas Synan Jr., a member of a drug task force in Hamilton County, Ohio, speaks at a press conference Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 in Cincinnati, at which coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco announced toxicology reports on eight people who died of drug overdoses in July and August had the drug Carfentinal in their systems.

Hamilton County Heroin Task Force Director Tom Synan Jr.is desperate for more drastic measures.

Carfentanil, a sedative for large animals, was the cause of at least eight overdose deaths in Hamilton County, Ohio, coroner Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco said Tuesday.