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OVERDOSES ON RISE

OVERDOSES ON RISE

The number of fentanyl-related overdoses is on the rise in west central Wisconsin. 

According to the La Crosse County Health Department, there were only five fentanyl overdoses in the county between 2013 and 2016 but that number jumped to 23 between 2017 and the first half 2018.  The Center for Disease Control says the number of fentanyl overdoses across the country rose by more than one-thousand percent between 2011 and 2016. 

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