Ocean County Health officials have released their annual overdose fatality pilot program report which looked into 58-cases in 2018 with an age range of 18-67.
A Toms River man arrested on February 15 for allegedly selling drugs has been placed in handcuffs again this week but this time for dealing pills to a man who overdosed and died.
Two Monmouth County men are among 15-people arrested for their roles in a major drug ring that supplied significant amounts of heroin and cocaine in the Monmouth and Middlesex County areas.
Ocean County Prosecutor Joe Coronato will be in Washington this afternoon to testify at the House Global Health Subcommittee hearing to discuss the effects of fentanyl on the opioid crisis here in Ocean County.
Drug activity between deals and overdoses has become so severe of a problem at the Jersey Shore the NJ DEA has now established a Monmouth-Ocean Task Force to help law enforcement curb this epidemic.
Genuine Baines, 19, of Trenton and Lindsay Robson, 28, of Robbinsville were both arrested and charged in connection with the drug induced death of Lisa Guadagno, 42, of Jackson on August 1, 2017.