Over two dozen overdoses in five hours in Huntington

Emergency services in a West Virginia city responded to more than two dozen overdoses in a five-hour period on Monday.

Beginning at about 3:30 p.m. Monday, 27 people overdosed within the next five hours in Huntington, a city in Cabell and Wayne counties that rests on the Ohio River.

News outlets reported that 26 had overdosed in a five-hour period and all survived, but Huntington Police Chief Joe Ciccarelli said that the blood work of a 27th victim who was originally reported as a medical call had “multiple drugs” in the individual’s system. That person died at the hospital.

Emergency services received the majority of the calls earlier in the five-hour stretch. About half of the victims were located within a mile of each other, Ciccarelli said.

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