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Sheriff, CARES Reaching Out to OD Victims

Scott Mason

By Christopher South

COURT HOUSE – Soon after Cape May County Sheriff Robert Nolan became the county’s 100th sheriff, he experienced the death of his son to an accidental overdose of fentanyl. 
Nolan said his son had battled with drug addiction before, but he had gotten clean; however, he had injured his knee at work and was in a lot of pain. An ex-girlfriend provided him with Oxycontin, which is a powerful painkiller, except the pills she gave him were laced with fentanyl. Nolan said they knew what he had taken because there was another dose found on his nightstand. Nolan later learned that the amount of fentanyl contained in one of the capsules was more than enough to kill someone. 

As sheriff, Nolan became aware of the problems associated with incarcerating addicts, but losing his son was a turning point in his life. 

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