{"id":115473,"date":"2021-11-09T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=115473"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:31:13","slug":"oxford-police-overdose-deaths-a-problem-in-oxford-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-police-overdose-deaths-a-problem-in-oxford-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Police: Overdose Deaths a Problem in Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since January of this year (2021), the <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> community has experienced 10 overdose deaths and 16\u00a0overdoses that have survived, that have been reported. The prescription pills that OPD has seen the most on recent overdose cases are 30mg <strong>Percocet<\/strong>. The pills are being pressed with <strong>Fentanyl <\/strong>and\u00a0have the same identical markings as the real pharmaceutical markings. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have information about someone selling or possessing products to manufacture illegal\u00a0narcotics, please contact: \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> at <strong>662-232-2400<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Metro Narcotics<\/strong> at <strong>662-236-3900 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or <strong>Lafayette County Crime Stoppers<\/strong> at <strong>662-234-8477<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The production of counterfeit pharmaceuticals is growing across the area. Pharmaceutical medication\u00a0should only be taken when obtained from a licensed pharmacist and used as directed by a licensed\u00a0physician. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a list of resources that the community has access to if you, or somebody that you know, are &nbsp;struggling with addiction: &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Communicare 662-234-7521 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MS CARE 662-234-6553\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oxford Treatment Center 662-291-7308 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stonewater Adolescent Recovery Center 662-373-2830 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since January of this year (2021), the Oxford, Mississippi community has experienced 10 overdose deaths and 16\u00a0overdoses that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":115474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[17101,5,7067,4,18416,655],"class_list":["post-115473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-fentanyl","tag-mississippi","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-percocet","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Percocet-Fentanyl.jpg?fit=1360%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}