Created: June 30, 2021 07:08 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) After a series of deadly drug overdose incidents, local experts warned such cases may become more common, and that they lack the tools to address them all.
“We’ve had overdoses outside treatment programs,” said Dr. Tim Wiegand, a toxicologist with Strong Memorial Hospital. “We’ve had overdoses in the community bathrooms. We ve had overdoses at the street level.
The Monroe County Sheriff s Office reports it saw seven overdose deaths in just two days. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a record 92,000 deadly overdoses last year.
News10NBC When we see big clusters of overdoses like, six, seven people dead in a weekend, usually, it s because a particularly strong batch of the fentanyl, the heroin which has fentanyl in it, had come out, Wiegand said.
Created: April 07, 2021 09:38 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) In Wednesday s consumer alert I’m examining those bills that could cost consumers far more than money.
You ll remember on Tuesday I told you that New Yorkers are getting bills in the mail for insurance they didn t buy.
And those bills are expensive. I m not talking about the bills themselves. I m talking about what this fateful financial fraud could cost consumers in the long run.
I closely examined a bundle of bills that looked real. That’s because it was indeed a bundle of real bills requesting payment for real auto insurance policies. But the consumers getting those bills don t actually owe this insurer any money.
Created: January 16, 2021 10:02 PM
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) In consumer news, News10NBC s Deanna Dewberry is taking a look at COVID-19, cleansers, chemistry, and you.
Dewberry recently interviewed the former head of the Monroe county Crime Lab, a man who has worked as a chemist for 40 years. He confirms that when used correctly, your hand sanitizer is an effective COVID-19 killer. But it has a warning you may not have noticed. It says, “flammable. Keep away from fire or flame”.
It s a warning we should not ignore. A Texas mother of three can attest to that.
Dec 12, 2020
Friends, I ain t never seed nothin lak hit an your humble reporter tore the seat outta my britches as I tried to straddle a barbed wire fence.
I m mad cause I ain t gonna be pressydint. I no Jim Wesley up c here at Science Hill and Ben Looney over c here in town voted fur me, but the Demmerkrats up in Warshinton didn t kount them votes. Jim, who ust to be with the health deepartment, wuz gonna be in charge uv ObommerKare an Ben wuz gonna ride shotgun in my limmerzene. He ust to be a park ranger an I noes he s got a double barrell.