Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio

Bob Topmiller, chief of toxicology at the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office, holds a small vial containing carfentanil extracted from a sample of blood.
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Jamie Landrum has been a police officer for two years in District 3 on the west side of the Cincinnati. In late August, the city was hit by 174 overdoses in six days. Landrum says officers were scarce.
“We were literally going from one heroin overdose, and then being on that one, and hearing someo