The Grant County Health District has installed a dispenser for Naloxone, which counteracts the effects of an opioid overdose, at the Grant County Health District office, 1038 W. Ivy St., Moses Lake.
August 4, 2025
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August 4, 2025 7:36 p.m.
Grant Co. opioid overdoses up in 2025
MOSES LAKE — With seven months of the year done, the number of overdose deaths in Grant County is running ahead of the same period in 2024. KC Sherwood, death investigator for the Grant County Coroner’s Office, said as of the end of July, Grant County has had 27 overdose deaths. “Last year, I think our total was 34. And we’re at 27 (cases) already,” Sherwood said. "There are more deaths due to overdoses than there were in the past.”