1 Week, 5 dead of opioid overdoses in Fairfax Co.; foundation offers Narcan

WASHINGTON — Six people died from drug overdoses in the past week in Fairfax County and five of those deaths were linked to opioids, county police said Friday. It was the deadliest week in Fairfax County history for drug overdoses. The most fatal overdoses reported in a week was two, said 2nd Lt. James Cox, with the police department’s Organized Crime and Narcotics Division.He called the rate fatal overdoses — including two on a single day — unprecedented

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