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2020 brings increase in Westmoreland overdose deaths

Naloxone, photographed at the The Medicine Shoppe in Latrobe on Jan. 4, 2016. Naloxone is a drug that can counter the lethal effects of an overdose of opioids.

There appears to be a slight uptick in the number of people who died from a drug overdose in Westmoreland County in 2020 after two consecutive years of decreases.


Source: The Tribune-Review