TALLMADGE: Each week, and sometimes each day, police and paramedics in this quiet suburban community expect at least one opiate overdose call.Since February, Tallmadge police have responded to 25 overdoses, two of which were fatal.From June 9 through Sept. 9 alone, the Tallmadge Fire Department administered 31 doses of naloxone, a heroin antidote better known by the brand name Narcan, to 17 patients.

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