Several potentially lifesaving vending machines are going to be put throughout Wisconsin, through a near $1 million state grant program. The machines will dispense the overdose...
An emergency call to revive two La Crosse men from drug overdoses led to several criminal charges, including drug trafficking. La Crosse police responded Sunday to...
A year after averaging 3.5 deaths a month due to drug overdoses, 2023 is not starting off well and police are warning a mix of drugs...
The new year in La Crosse County is starting with what the medical examiner calls an “alarming” number of drug overdoses. The examiner’s office has investigated...
The rise of opioid use in recent years, including overdoses of fentanyl, have led UW-La Crosse to place Narcan boxes around the campus. Boxes containing the...
La Crosse County’s medical examiners are investigating multiple, potential overdoses, some that have led to victims dying. That information released from the Medical Examiner Tim Candahl...
La Crosse County is on par to eclipse last year’s overdose deaths. It’s a stat the Coulee Recovery Center and the Alliance To Heal would like...
Seven months into 2021, La Crosse County is more than halfway to the number of drug overdose deaths reported last year. Al Bliss from the Alliance...
A troubled year, dominated by a pandemic, may have led to a surge in drug overdose deaths in La Crosse County. The county’s Alliance to HEAL...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With opioid overdoses setting records in 2020, an effort is underway to install boxes in public that would make a frequently used...
You are now more likely from overdose on opioids than die in a car accident. That’s according to a new report from the National Safety Council....
It took two cans of Narcan to revive a La Crosse County jail inmate, while another is being charged with supplying the drugs. Jailers found Joseph...
The use of NARCAN to stop drug overdoses has been going up in La Crosse County in the past decade, according to a new survey by...
It’s a staggering number, said one emergency room doctor. A four-percent increase, that’s how much more NARCAN is being bought at the Gundersen Health System pharmacy,...
It’s being described as slightly more potent than carfentanil, which can 5,000 more potent than heroin. It’s called tetrahydrofuran fentanyl. Tetrahydrofuran is used to calibrate machines....
A recommendation by the US Surgeon General is something that ER physician Chris Eberlein of Gundersen in La Crosse can get behind. US Surgeon General Jerome...
New study group starts 2-year mission to help avoid drug deaths
A drug that’s 5,000 times more potent than heroin has moved into La Crosse. Carfentanil, which has caused at least one death in the city, is...
BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) — The sheriff of Clermont County firmly believes it’s a call of duty for his deputies to carry a nasal spray that brings...
La Crosse is already ahead of the curve in efforts to avoid drug overdoses on college campuses. The Wisconsin justice department made a deal with a...
