Police Chief Michael LaRoque says the second wave of heroin overdoses in recent months on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota has led to an “urgent public health crisis.” Within the past week, there have been six overdoses, resulting in two deaths. Four of the victims were saved with Narcan, a drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. LaRogue says it’s believed the heroin is either pure or laced with fentanyl or some other drug
LaRoque says his department and area drug task force groups are stepping up efforts to track down the dealers and he says tribal government is in the process of putting together a trespass order targeting certain outsiders, to try keep them off tribal land.
