Clark County Coroner's Office

In your health news, fatal drug overdoses in Clark County have declined over the past 21 months, including a steep drop this year.

Data from the Clark County Coroner's Office as well as the Southern Nevada Health District shows overdose deaths of Clark County residents in the first six months of 2026 is down 30 percent from the first half of last year.

There are multiple factors contributing to the decline.

An alliance of nonprofits is working to help people in southern Nevada with substance abuse disorders.

Authorities have identified a man whose remains were found inside a barrel at Lake Mead in 2022, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Clark County Coroner's Office, alongside homicide detectives, confirmed the positive identification Wednesday.

The body was originally discovered by boaters on May 1st, 2022, near Henneman Harbor.

A historic drought caused levels in the massive reservoir to drop dramatically.

There was absolutely no evidence at the scene to suggest foul play.

Ted's body was taken to the Clark County Coroner's Office.

Sandy was hysterical enough that paramedics took her to Valley Hospital to be sedated, and she spent the night there.

Back at the house, Ted's friends kept turning up all evening, trying to find out what had happened.

Now it was inside a government investigation.

And somewhere in the middle of it, the medical examiner who had performed the autopsy, Dr. Sims, sat down with everything Dillard had collected.

On March 15th, 1999, the Clark County Coroner's Office changed the ruling on Ted Binion's death from undetermined to homicide.

The finding rested on what Sims had seen on his own table six months earlier.

Nobody treated the house like a crime scene because as far as anyone there could tell, it wasn't one.

Homicide Lieutenant Wayne Peterson said it plainly, "There was absolutely no evidence at the scene to suggest foul play." Ted's body was taken to the Clark County Coroner's Office.

Sandy was hysterical enough that paramedics took her to Valley Hospital to be sedated, and she spent the night there.

Back at the house, Ted's friends kept turning up all evening, trying to find out what had happened.

Now it was inside a government investigation.

And somewhere in the middle of it, the medical examiner who had performed the autopsy, Dr. Sims, sat down with everything Dillard had collected.

On March 15th, 1999, the Clark County Coroner's Office changed the ruling on Ted Binion's death from undetermined to homicide.

The finding rested on what Sims had seen on his own table six months earlier.