BATON ROUGE – Opioid overdose deaths are declining in East Baton Rouge Parish. The parish is three points higher than the national average when it comes to helping people survive an opioid overdose.
Mental Health and substance abuse expert and advocate Tonja Myles says there is still more work to do.
“Here in Baton Rouge, we do have some of the best numbers in the country when it comes to drug overdose death, but we are not satisfied, and so this opioid abatement money is blood money of people who lost their lives behind a lie,” Tonja Myles said…