Police: Number Of Heroin Overdoses Grows In Madison | Health

Madison police responded to a series of heroin overdoses in recent days.

Police said that they've had to deal with at least three heroin overdoses this week.

The first incident happened on Monday morning. Police found a 23-year-old pregnant woman in a parked car on the city’s north side. The woman told police that she’d done heroin.

On Wednesday, emergency responders helped a 21-year-old man who wasn’t breathing. He had apparently snorted heroin in a home on Mills Street and had to be hospitalized.

Also on Wednesday, police found another man unconscious with drug paraphernalia in a bathroom at Walgreen’s on Raymond Road.