CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Last year, 140 people died from drug overdoses in Hamilton County.
While that number is lower than the years before, as the peak of opioid deaths were in 2022, there is still room for improvement in tackling the opioid crisis.
Some recent years such as 2023 have seen over 2,000 patients admitted to area emergency rooms for drug overdoses in a single year…