The Hamilton County Addiction Response Coalition has issued an overdose alert following a surge in suspected overdose deaths over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
The agency says there were 10 suspected overdose deaths between Wednesday, May 20 and Tuesday, May 26. Those includes four deaths on Saturday, and another five overdose related emergency department visits on Monday.
“We issued an alert because we had (10) suspected overdose deaths between Wednesday and Tuesday, which is a very high volume, and then we had five overdose-related emergency runs. These are folks that did not die but did overdose,” Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus, who serves as executive chair of the Coalition steering committee, tells WVXU…