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Milwaukee County has likely already surpassed its prior all-time high of 418 drug overdose deaths in 2019, and reaching 500 cases this year seems like a foregone conclusion. (File photo by Edgar Mendez)
NNS reporter Edgar Mendez joins Joy Powers of WUWM’s “Lake Effect” to discuss his recent story on drug deaths in Milwaukee County in 2020.
Mendez says drug overdoses have been trending up for the past 15 years but that 2020 saw an unprecedented surge.
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