KDKA Investigates: Fatal Overdoses Dramatically Down Across Region

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — There seemed to be no end in sight. Like the rest of the region, overdoses in Westmoreland County took more lives than murder, car accidents and suicides combined:174 in 2016 and 195 in 2017.
“People asked me, ‘Is there light at the end of the tunnel?’ I said, ‘I don’t even think we’ve seen the tunnel yet,'” Coroner Ken Bacha said.
But through the first five months of 2018, fatal overdoses in W