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The Wisconsin Department of Health services has distributed about a third of the money it received from that massive settlement with opioid manufacturing companies. While helpful, one local expert said

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced earlier in the week that the state is slated to receive more than $500 million in opioid-related settlements

Fentanyl in very small amounts is a highly potent opiate and according to Dr. Chris Eberlein of Gundersen Health System, the synthetic substance is 100 times more potent than heroin,

Fentanyl in very small amounts is a highly potent opiate and according to Dr. Chris Eberlein of Gundersen Health System, the synthetic substance is 100 times more potent than heroin,

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) — In just a week, three people in La Crosse County have died from an opioid overdose. County medical examiner Timothy Candahl has issued an advisory

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows nearly two-thirds of drug overdose deaths nationwide involve synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Drugs in the community are stronger. They are easy to produce and they cost less money.

Experts say lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions made treatment harder to get. Prescription painkillers and fentanyl are driving the opioid epidemic. A Gundersen Health System physician doesn’t expect overdose deaths to drop anytime soon. “I think it is going to take some time. I don’t think this is going to be a quick, next year we are going to be back to below where we were 2019 numbers. I think it is going to take a couple years,” said Dr. Chris Eberlein, an emergency medicine p...