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, […]

Ottawa County first responders have a new weapon in the war on drugs and combating drug-related deaths from opiates, and it comes in a tiny class vile. Every Ottawa County Sheriff’s deputy will carry two doses of Narcan, the brand name for nasal naloxone, a new nasal spray used to prevent and reverse a drug […]

Medina Police are using a coordinated enforcement strategy in an effort to address the rise in heroin drug overdoses in our area. The police are partnering with the subsidized housing community to identify and rid subsidized housing of the drug dealers and abusers in the Medina version of “Broken Windows.” “Clean it up, enforce your […]