On October 24, 2016, on her Facebook page, Jamie Allison wrote “Death is only a shot away…” Less than two weeks later she died from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl. Allison, 26, was one of a record number of people who died of a drug overdose in Milwaukee County in 2016. She’s a statistic, […]

As the Milwaukee opioid epidemic continues, paramedics are stocking their units with narcan, a drug used to prevent the high. They go out on overdose calls so often, that using narcan on patients has become part of their daily routine.