As the opioid epidemic rages, Ohio scrambling to handle flood of dead bodies

Enlarge / OxyContin 80 mg pills. (credit: Liz O. Baylen) Last year, it was refrigerated trucks. Now, it’s “temporary storage” in funeral homes. The Coroner’s Office in Montgomery County, Ohio, has been so overwhelmed by the death toll of the raging opioid epidemic that it has had to turn to makeshift morgues to keep up. […]