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NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford man is dead after suffering an apparent fatal overdose. Police were called before 12:30 A.M. Monday morning to an apartment in the 200-block of Ashley Boulevard for a 54-year-old man not breathing. One of the man's neighbors in the building had given him several doses of Narcan while another neighbor performed CPR...

The State Medical Examiner's Office has taken custody of three bodies after New Bedford emergency personnel reported three separate fatalities in the city Thursday.

A Dartmouth man is dead after apparently overdosing in a New Bedford apartment. Police say 32-year-old Patrick Barrett of Kingston Street in Dartmouth was found unresponsive in the 400 block of Cedar Street Sunday. He was transported to St...

Two people have been charged in separate incidents of drug use while driving in New Bedford. New Bedford Police say a Middleboro man was found overdosing in his car Sunday afternoon near the fire station on Pleasant Street. 24-year-old Joseph Delsignore was revived with Narcan and transported to St...

NARCAN was administered after New Bedford police say another driver was found unresponsive due to drug use.

Charges are being filed against a Westport woman police say was on drugs when she crashed her car in New Bedford. Police say 32-year-old Jessica Baulier of Westport crashed her Hyundai Sonata into a tree on Robert Street near the Elizabeth Carter Brooks Elementary School around 3pm Tuesday...

Beginning this academic year, Dartmouth Public Schools will be outfitted with the overdose-reversing drug known as Narcan.

A New Bedford man is found dead of an apparent overdose inside of a sober house. New Bedford Police tell WBSM News the 57-year-old man was found unconscious by a roommate around 7:30 Tuesday night at the Freedom House at 398 Union Street...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has released a report, detailing the number of opioid-related deaths the state has seen in the past several years. On the Southcoast, 48 people died in New Bedford in 2015 as a direct result of an opioid overdose...

A Fall River woman is found dead in a drug rehabilitation center in New Bedford. Police Spokesman Lt. Amos Melo tells WBSM News staff members found the 36-year-old woman unresponsive in a bathroom at the facility on Gifford Street Thursday...