Thanks to Naloxone, an opioid antagonist also known as Narcan, three lives were saved from overdoses in the village in April. Police Chief Bryon Meshew said the first life-saving incident happened April 15 when Sgt. Ed Hamilton received the call, he said, and upon arrival checked for vital signs. What he found was indicative of […]

While the battle against heroin in Lorain County rages on, law enforcement officials say they are making strides against the epidemic while saving lives in the process. According to the Lorain County Coroner’s Office, the rise of heroin started about six years ago and culminated in 2012 when the amount of drug related deaths tripled […]

Thanks to a $400 seed grant, local law enforcement now has the tools necessary to help save victims of overdoses on opiate-based drugs. The grant's funding, accepted by the Medway Drug Enforcement Agency on Aug. 8 from the Stark County SOLACE (Surviving Our Loss and Continuing Everyday) group, allowed it to become certified in carrying […]

In another concrete response to the area’s heroin epidemic, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald and Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas P. Gilson today announced funding for the Westshore Enforcement Bureau’s (WEB) Nasal Narcan program. Narcan, the commercial name for Naloxone, is a medication that can reverse an overdose caused by an opioid drug, such […]

An Ottawa County sheriff's deputy used a new drug deputies began carrying this summer to save a woman from a drug overdose Sunday in Oak Harbor, authorities said. She was the first person the sheriff's office saved using Narcan, a drug sprayed in the nasal passages to reverse the effects of an overdose on opiates, […]