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In a five hour period on Wednesday police, firefighters and EMTs responded to five overdoses throughout New Bedford.

A New Bedford man is dead of an apparent drug overdose. New Bedford Police Detective Captain Steven Vicente says a 51-year-old man was found unresponsive in the bed of his Mitchell St. apartment around 3pm Sunday after receiving a call for a potential overdose...

The New Bedford City Council continues to look at new ways to curb the growing opioid crisis on city streets with a new motion filed Thursday evening.

The lifesaving drug used to reverse opioid overdoses will soon be stocked in several New Bedford public schools.

Some scary moments yesterday on Ashley Boulevard New Bedford yesterday afternoon.  Witnesses say a man was driving near the Coffin Ave intersection shortly after 4pm, talking on his cell phone, when he stopped responding.  People were beeping their horns at the man, but he was slouched at the wheel...