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Health officials issue alert after 31 overdoses reported

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31 overdoses reported over a seven-day period last week has prompted another alert from public health officials in Windsor-Essex.

The community opioid and substance strategy says the overdoses were reported at hospital emergency departments between October 4th and October 10th.

The organization says 17 of the overdoses involved fentanyl.

That comes in the wake of 30 overdoses reported last week.