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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts city is considering a proposal to create publicly accessible boxes containing Narcan, the medication used to counteract opioid overdoses. Cambridge officials say a passer-by who found someone suffering from an overdose could administer the drug before medics arrive...

Police work does not end just because an officer’s shift is over. New Bedford Police Sgt. Greg Demers was leaving police headquarters Tuesday, April 4, when, with assistance from other officers, he helped save the life of a 21-year-old Dartmouth man who was overdosing in a passing vehicle...

Multiple news outlets are reporting that a 57-year-old woman died Sunday afternoon as the result of an apparent heroin overdose. The incident occurred in the 100-block of Summit Street. The woman was found by a family member shortly before 4:30 p...

NEW BEDFORD—The medical examiner is investigating the death of a 36-year-old New Bedford man Wednesday from an apparent drug overdose Wednesday at a home on Whitman Street. Medics pronounced the man dead at the scene. Evidence of apparent drug use was found at the scene...

NEW BEDFORD - A Fairhaven woman faces charges after police say she overdosed in her car. New Bedford Police say 48-year-old Tracy Hobson of Sconticut Neck Road was found passed out in her car on Campbell Street before 5 a.m. Wednesday...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford woman is being charged after she crashed into several parked cars in the city. Police responded to the accident before 11 P.M. Wednesday night, and found 42-year-old Dawn Lynn Costa leaning against her vehicle which had hit two parked cars in front of 40 Linden Street...

NEW BEDFORD - A Revere man faces a charge of operating under the influence of drugs after he was found passed out in the driver’s seat of his car Saturday morning in New Bedford. Police say 51-year-old William Gurnett was found slumped over the wheel of his black Nissan at the exit of the Fairfield Inn on MacArthur Drive around 9:30 A ...

FAIRHAVEN - Fairhaven Police are investigating a suspected fatal overdose. Police were called to a single-family home in the town just before 5 P.M. Monday for an unresponsive male. The 29-year-old male was declared dead at the scene...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police say a 57-year-old city man has died of an apparent overdose after being found in the City's main library. Police and medics were called to the New Bedford Free Public Library on Pleasant Street before 7 P...

NEW BEDFORD - A 22-year-old woman is dead of an apparent overdose. New Bedford Police responded to the woman's Holly Street home after 4 P.M. Monday and performed CPR on the woman. She was transported to St. Luke's Hospital where she was pronounced dead...