Heroin Overdose

The heroin epidemic is making its way into the bathrooms of public libraries nationwide, including here in New Jersey, according to a report. The Associated Press cited New Brunswick, Middlesex County, where overdoses have taken place in library bathrooms.

A sobering reality: Narcan doesn't always reverse heroin overdoses. That warning from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office following the recent death of a Wall Township man who police were unable to revive with the opiate antidote.

The reality of the Jersey Shore's heroin epidemic hit home following the death Wednesday of a 50-year-old Wall Township man, who police were unable to revive with the Narcan (Naloxone) antidote, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

The case of a 2013 heroin overdose death in Toms River advances with the arrest of the last of three suspects, announced today by the office of Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato.

Two suspects are in custody and another is sought, all accused of enabling a 23-year-old woman to die of a heroin overdose in Toms River in February 2013.

Five hours after ambulances were stocked with Narcan, Toms River E-M-T's became the first in the state to administer the heroin antidote to save the life of an overdose victim.