Drugs are killing so many people in Ohio that cold-storage trailers are being used as morgues

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Drugs are killing so many people in Ohio that cold-storage trailers are being used as morgues
By Kristine Phillips March 16 at 12:04 PM

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By about 3 p.m. Friday, a county morgue in east Ohio was already full — and more bodies were expected.

Rick Walters, an investigator for the Stark County coroner's office, had just left for two death scenes: a suicide and an overdose.

From the road, he called the director of the Ohio Emergency Management Agency to ask for help. He needed more space, he explained — specifically, a cold-storage trailer to act as an overflow morgue.

As with much of the United States, Ohio is in the throes of a heroin and opioid epidemic that shows no signs of abating.

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