Over two dozen overdoses in five hours in Huntington

[TexasTowelie]

Emergency services in a West Virginia city responded to more than two dozen overdoses in a five-hour period on Monday.

Beginning at about 3:30 p.m. Monday, 27 people overdosed within the next five hours in Huntington, a city in Cabell and Wayne counties that rests on the Ohio River.

News outlets reported that 26 had overdosed in a five-hour period and all survived, but Huntington Police Chief Joe Ciccarelli said that the blood work of a 27th victim who was originally reported as a medical call had “multiple drugs” in the individual’s system. That person died at the hospital.

Emergency services received the majority of the calls earlier in the five-hour stretch. About half of the victims were located within a mile of each other, Ciccarelli said.

Read more: http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/17/over-two-dozen-overdoses-five-hours-wva-city/88905580/

[Warpy]

1. Sounds like somebody sold a particularly hot batch

of whatever it is they've OD'd on. The one with multiple ODs sounds like a suicide.

This is a public health problem, not a legal one. Legal, regulated drugs would be predictable and there would be few accidental ODs.

Taxes from their sale could pay for inpatient clinics for those who wanted to get off the drugs.

Prohibition has never worked, is not working, and will never work.