Cincinnati Sees Estimated 78 Heroin Overdoses in 2 Days

“With ALLLL that being said, I would still rather buy off the streets”. ‘It’s going out as straight fentanyl, but they are selling it as heroin’.

Driver tells The Republic of Columbus the heroin was apparently laced with fentanyl or another unknown substance. She said it’s like trying to hit “a moving target”.

Hamilton County Commissioner Dennis Deters said Thursday the expanded teams would include a law enforcement officer, an emergency responder and a specialist who could treat people who’ve overdosed. Carfentanil is an extremely powerful narcotic, about 100,000 times more powerful than morphine.

Most of the weekend’s heroin overdoses were laced with the tranquilizer, according to Synan. “He was just laying there on the ground and I thought he was dead”.

Boggs also pointed out it isn’t just the user that is in danger of ingesting the risky mixtures. The Hamilton County Heroin Coalition reported its appearance in the region in July.

The drugs seem to coming into the area from Detroit via Chicago to Dayton, Ohio, Boggs said, as well as the I-75 corridor.

Police in Cincinnati had a busy night investigating at least 20 overdoses across the city’s west side. The agency notes that patients who overdose on the drug can be treated with naloxone but they may require a higher dose to effectively reverse the overdose.

Not only did it have increasing cases of overdoses since 2011-even stronger compounds were found in the city earlier this year. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than heroin.

“What you think you have may not be what it is and this is risky and it can kill you and it is killing people”, Seymour Assistant Police Chief Craig Hayes said. I think our record speaks for itself. “They just sit back and tell stories all day”. “These individuals have more rights than we do”. Dealers are replacing heroin with fentanyl analogs in their quest to expand their supply and give an addition to the drug.

According to Bivens, it takes education and hard work; something his office has been doing and will continue to do. Cincinnati is in Hamilton County. Jennings County Sheriff’s Department Deputies arrested four people on drug possession charges.

Cincinnati Fire officials have said that there were a total of 34 overdoses from 7 a.m. Tuesday morning until midnight.

Butler County has seen a surge in overdoses past two years.

In addition to Jackson County, Jennings County experienced 12 overdoses, the release states.

SPD used Narcan, an antidote for opiate overdoses, in several overdose incidents Tuesday and today.