This City’s Overdose Deaths Have Plunged. Can Others Learn From It? [NYTimes.com]
Overdose deaths in Montgomery County (OH), anchored by Dayton, have plunged this year, after a stretch so bad that the coroner’s office kept running out of space and having to rent refrigerated trailers. The county had 548 overdose deaths by Nov. 30 last year; so far this year there have been 250 , a 54 percent decline. .... When Sam Quinones, the author of “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” testified before Congress earlier this year, he said that “the more cops and...