{"id":218787,"date":"2026-06-14T06:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218787\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:11:20","slug":"cape-may-county-officials-warn-of-increase-in-drug-overdoses-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218787\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape May County officials warn of increase in drug overdoses \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/cape-may-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cape May County<\/a> officials issued a serious warning to residents after five drug overdoses occurred in a 24-hour period between June 11 and June 12. <\/p>\n<p>According to officials, there is no link confirmed between the five overdoses &#8212; one of which was fatal &#8212; but drug evidence found at the scene of the overdoses have been taken to the Cape May County Forensic Laboratory is being used to test the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also said that the presence of heroin and fentanyl in the street drug supply is already known and that the drugs can be lethal. <\/p>\n<p>In an effort to fight the opiate epidemic and reduce drug-related crimes, the Cape May County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office deploys the Hope One Mobile Unit to bring addiction and recovery services and other resources to communities in the county. <\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know needs recovery support in Cape May County, officials said you can call Hope One\u2019s 24\/7 hotline at 609-522-4375.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape May County officials issued a serious warning to residents after five drug overdoses occurred in a 24-hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45676,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-218787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cape-may-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}