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CLEVELAND Hospitals across Ohio are seeing a spike in patients needing help with alcohol and/or drug addiction. Dr. Ryan Marino is a Medical Toxicologist and University Hospitals Emergency Room Physician and says the numbers are trending in a bad direction.
“There have been a lot more overdoses, a lot more people with withdrawal from substances and just people who don’t have anywhere else to go coming into the emergency department. Overdoses are definitely up in Cuyahoga County, in the state of Ohio and across the country,” says Dr. Marino.