Opioids

The drug and alcohol treatment facility, Turning Point Inc., has announced that they'll be opening up a new location in Ocean County, which ranks second in New Jersey for the highest amount of drug overdoses.

A Stafford Township man has been arrested for allegedly providing the batch of heroin to a Beachwood man that led to his death last month.

A teacher at Eagleswood Township Elementary School in Ocean County is charged with snorting morphine off his desk in front of students.

Jackson Police use intel about a man heading to town with a large quantity of marijuana to make an arrest at the location they found out he was heading towards.

Middletown Police collar a township resident whose allegedly been selling illegal drugs.

A Jackson man is revived with narcan after overdosing and found lying on the front lawn of a home on Toms River Road.

Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer has now been on the job for almost two months of a five-year appointment where he plans to address a number of key issues affecting residents.

A Neptune man who sold drugs to a Long Branch man who later overdosed has been indicted by a Monmouth County Grand Jury, according to Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni.

A motor vehicle stop leads to a string of charges for Jersey Shore men pulled over on Neptune Boulevard in Neptune.

Five Ocean County residents have been arrested following a sting by local law enforcement into the alleged dealing of crack-cocaine while a fifth resident remains a fugitive on the run.

Ocean County has a new prosecutor, Bradley Billhimer, a criminal defense attorney based in Toms River who is set to begin a five-year appointment this week.

A bill to tackle pharmacy medicare fraud is part of a final opioid bill that is on its way to President Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law.