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| Recent overdoses highlight the difficulty of keeping drugs out of jails |
| By whyy.org- Joe Hernandez |
| Published: 10/16/2017 |
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On the first Friday of this month, four inmates at the Cumberland County jail in South Jersey overdosed in their cells almost simultaneously. Corrections officers making their rounds noticed the inmates were in distress and alerted medical staff, who saved all four men using the overdose-reversing drug Narcan. Although this incident appears to be an outlier — other local jails have not seen recent spikes in overdoses by inmates — law enforcement officials said it highlights their ongoing struggle to detect new forms of drugs that have become ubiquitous amid the opioid crisis. Read More. |
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