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Saturday, March 18th, 2017

Too Many Bodies in Ohio Morgue, so Coroner Gets Death Trailer

Author:     Corky Siemaszko
Source:     NBC News
Publication Date:     Mar 14, 2017 at 4:00 PM ET
 Link: Too Many Bodies in Ohio Morgue, so Coroner Gets Death Trailer
Stephan:   In addition to the insanity of guns, an epidemic that is currently killing 33,000 people a year in the U.S. at great profit to the arms industry, we now have a second epidemic also killing 33,000 people a year -- opioids. And once again it is all about profit. The pharmaceutical companies, the distribution companies, the local pharmacies all know what is going on, but they are making so much money and are so morally bankrupt they don't care. Just like the gun makers. In America profit is the only social priority. 66,000 people are dying? So what. It has gotten so bad the morgues in little towns aren't big enough to store all the bodies. You think I'm exaggerating? Read this report.

Rick Walters, investigator with the Stark County coroner’s office, shows the temporary morgue trailer on loan by the Ohio Department of Health to assist the filled-to-capacity coroner’s morgue.
Credit: Lori Monsewicz / The Canton Repository

CANTON, OHIO — It’s mute testimony to the opioid addiction plague that has been ravaging Ohio — a 20-foot-long air conditioned trailer with room for 18 bodies.

The Stark County coroner in Canton had a “cold storage mass casualty trailer” trucked-in on Saturday because the morgue was overflowing with bodies, nearly half of them victims of drug overdoses.

Their facility in the county jail complex on Atlantic Boulevard holds about a dozen bodies, Stark County investigator Rick Walters told NBC News. Four more arrived unexpectedly at the close of business Friday.

It wasn’t just suspected drug overdoses,” he said. “There were several traffic fatalities. Our problems were multi-faceted.”

But drug overdoses, Walter said, “is clearly a problem.”

“We’re up 20 percent this year,” he said. “Our suicide rate is also up. The drug problem is costing us a significant amount of money. We’re spending five […]

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