Pubdate: Mon, 19 Jun 2006
Source: Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, NJ)
Copyright: 2006 Courier-Post
Contact:  http://www.courierpostonline.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/826
Author: Mark Leiser
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HEROIN OVERDOSES KEEP TAKING LIVES

Camden County authorities spent Sunday investigating three more 
apparent heroin overdoses, one of them fatal. The incidents raised to 
42 the number of people requiring hospitalization for adverse 
reactions to drugs since Friday.

The victim of the fatal overdose -- a 31-year-old man whose name was 
not released -- was discovered around 12:25 p.m. in the Riviera Motor 
Inn on Route 73 in Pennsauken, said Bill Shralow, spokesman for the 
Camden County Prosecutor's Office.

A bag of heroin found in the room was stamped with the word 
"Chemistry," Shralow said. Police also found crack cocaine. 
Investigators believe the man purchased the drugs in Philadelphia.

Two other people were hospitalized for apparent adverse reactions to 
drugs, Shralow said. One incident happened in Camden. The location of 
the other was not immediately available from authorities. This is the 
second rash of heroin overdoses in South Jersey in two months. Eight 
people died and dozens more were hospitalized in April.

"There's no way to know right now whether the two waves . . . are 
related, but certainly that's going to be investigated," Shralow 
said. "There is a bad batch of something going around right now and, 
if there was ever a time for somebody who's got a problem to start a 
new page, this would be the time."
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