Police In MN Town Confiscate More Than $5,000 Worth Of Narcotics

Wyoming, Minnesota is a town of about 7,750 people located in Chisago County, Minnesota. On Monday, police there said they confiscated more than $5,000 worth of narcotics from an individual during an unrelated arrest.

"Officers are doing their best to try and keep us a drug free community," Wyoming police said on Facebook.

Drug overdoses in Minnesota

Data from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) showed drug overdose deaths, including those involving unintentional deaths and suicides, jumped 11 percent between 2014 and 2015. This increase from 516 deaths in 2014 to 572 deaths in 2015 follows a long-term trend of rising deaths due to drug overdoses in Minnesota.

Minnesota drug overdose deaths are more than four times as high than in the year 2000, when there were 129 drug overdose deaths. In 2015, more than half of the drug-related deaths were related to prescription medications rather than illegal street drugs, according to a news release from MDH.

The leading drugs associated with deaths were opioid pain relievers (216) followed by heroin (114), stimulants such as methamphetamines (78), benzodiazepines (71) and cocaine (38).

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