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Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports
Opioids Drive Highest Number Of OD Deaths Ever In US, While NJ Holds Steady, CDC Reports Call it a statistical oddity: Despite an historic spike in drug overdose deaths across the United States last year, the total reported for New Jersey ticked up barely 1% over 2019 – compared with an increase of more than 32% in New York, over 17% in Pennsylvania and more than 10% in Connecticut, the CDC reported. More than 93,000 people across the country died from drug overdoses amid last year’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. That total represented a 29.4% increase from the 72,151 deaths projected nationwide for 2019, according to an annual…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Port Authority K9 Detects Compartment That Concealed 154 Pounds Of Coke In Fruit Trailer Port Authority K9 Detects Compartment That Concealed 154 Pounds Of Coke In Fruit Trailer
Port Authority K9 Detects Compartment That Concealed 154 Pounds Of Coke In Fruit Trailer Heroes come in all shapes and sizes -- and species: A Port Authority Police K9 sniffed out a compartment used to smuggle more than $10 million in cocaine into the Bronx in a trailer filled with rotting fruit, prosecutors said. Balu and his Port Authority police officer partner are assigned with the DEA, the NYPD and New York State Police to a task force that pursues international drug smugglers in the New York metropolitan area. During one of the area's largest cocaine seizures in years, Balu's nose led task force members to a hidden compartment in the top of a refrigerated trailer that aut…

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by Jerry DeMarco