Opioid Overdose Crisis: Medications Prevent Subsequent Overdoses

Opioid overdose crisis: Medications prevent subsequent overdoses

Drug overdose is the number one cause of accidental death in Connecticut, where someone is more likely to die from a drug overdose than from a car accident.

Nearly 1,000 people died of drug overdoses in CT last year. What experts say that number means.

The number of drug overdose deaths have declined for the third year in a row in both Connecticut and the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

A dedicated team hits the streets to combat the opioid crisis.

Daniel Dreifuss here. For this week’s cover story, I wanted to answer the question: What was being done in Monterey County to combat the opioid crisis?