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Minneapolis sees record number of overdoses, and opioids are top killer

With just over a month left in the year, Minneapolis has recorded more than 1,300 drug overdoses - a sobering milestone that's the highest in at least a dozen years.

The 1,360 count through Nov. 18 easily surpassed the 954 overdoses reported in all of 2018 and left city and public health officials scrambling to respond to the opioid crisis. The data dating back to 2007 only captures cases in which police, firefighters or paramedics respond to a reported overdose, fatal or otherwise, and not those instances in which victims are revived by someone at the scene or get to the hospital on their own.

http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-sees-record-number-of-overdoses/565407632/

 

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