Local doctors are backing off opioid prescriptions as crisis continues to grow

Locally, South Bend EMS used 494 doses of naloxone, the opioid-overdose antidote, in 2017, up from 338 doses the previous year. Overdose deaths in St. Joseph County did drop from 60 to 57 in 2017, but the total is still higher than the number of people killed in homicides and motor vehicle accidents ...