Maybe Toledo needs a couple Hamsterdams

The Wire: Hamsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoiJRKwiC1Y

"There's never been a paper bag for drugs." - Bunny

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2016/08/28/Flood-of-overdoses-takes-toll-on-rescuers.html

The overdose logs do show calls to every corner of the county. People overdose in Whitehouse, North Toledo, and Sylvania.

Heavily represented in the data are the 43605 and 43612 ZIP codes in East Toledo and North Toledo. More overdoses are reported in those two ZIP codes than anywhere else in Lucas County, though West Toledo’s 43615 is not far behind.

In East Toledo’s 43605, more than 400 overdoses were reported over that two-year period for an area that census estimates say is home to a little more than 28,000 people.

Many locations with frequent calls occur where people are already struggling with a host of other issues. Cherry Street Mission, the city’s largest homeless shelter, was the source of 20 calls for overdoses. Likewise, the YWCA downtown and the Lucas County Jail have multiple calls on the list.

Also represented are calls to McDonald’s, Rite Aids, library branches, and Franklin Park Mall — public, and perhaps the source of a warm, free place to shoot up or sleep.

The calls track where victims overdose, not where they reside, so not all north side overdoses are from north side residents.

“Some do, a majority don’t,” said Lt. Robert Chromik, who heads up the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office’s Drug Abuse Response Team, or DART. “A majority come from ZIP codes that are low [on the list].” The overdose locations are a better indicator of where they are buying drugs, he said.

"We know statistically that people are going and purchasing heroin in these areas because they use within a block radius [of where they buy],” he said.