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Teh One Who Knocks
08-16-2018, 10:41 AM
By Frank Miles | Fox News


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As many as 76 people overdosed on what’s believed to have been synthetic marijuana at or near a Connecticut city park as fellow parkgoers watched in horror.

Officials said most of the overdoses happened on the New Haven Green throughout the day on Wednesday.

“We have a guy laid out in the alleyway, unresponsive, eyes wide open. He’s out cold,” an unidentified bystander shouted, according to the New Haven Register.
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Lt. Ernest Jones, an emergency medical technician for the New Haven Fire Department, told the Register he’s had his job for five years, and never had such an abnormal day at work.

“This was a particularly odd, rare occasion where (there was) call after call for man down, obviously with symptoms of some kind of overdose, and at the time of getting that patient packaged and transported to the hospital, we’d see another immediately fall down, right there,” Jones said. “At that point, we’d go help that patient, and while helping that patient, another person went down. So it became a domino effect.”

No deaths were reported, but authorities said two people showed life-threatening symptoms.

CBS News reported the victims, covering a range of ages, experienced “a multitude of signs and symptoms ranging from vomiting, hallucinating, high blood pressure, shallow breathing, semi-conscious and unconscious states,” said Rick Fontana, director of the city’s Office of Emergency Operations.

Naloxone, an antidote for narcotic overdoses, was administered to some victims but didn’t appear to be effective.
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“Do not come down to the Green and purchase this K2,” city Police Chief Anthony Campbell said. “It is taking people out very quickly, people having respiratory failure. Don’t put your life in harm.”

The Green, which attracts homeless people and drug users throughout the year, as The New York Post reported, is located in downtown New Haven to the south and west of the Ivy League Yale University.

On average, two people die of a drug overdose every day in Connecticut. The state has surpassed the national death rate for drug and opioid overdoses since 2013.

“People are self-medicating for several different reasons and every agency — police, fire, medical, hospitals — all are strained at this time. This is a problem that’s not going away,” New Haven Fire Chief John Alston Jr. said, according to WVIT.
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Police said they arrested 37-year-old Felix Melendez, who was out on parole prior to his arrest, according to the Register; he’s believed to be connected to at least some of the overdoses in the park.

Synthetic marijuana, which generally is plant material sprayed with chemicals that mimic the high from real marijuana, has been blamed for overdoses across the country.

Authorities suspect synthetic cannabinoids, known as K2, were laced with other substances in the New Haven cases, ABC News reported.

K2 can result in seizures, psychosis and even death.

Officials were testing the blood of the victims to see exactly what they ingested.

The overdoses follow a similar outbreak at the same park on July 4, when more than a dozen people were treated.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

RBP
08-16-2018, 11:16 AM
Wow. K2 is nasty shit and can cause permanent brain damage.


Naloxone, an antidote for narcotic overdoses, was administered to some victims but didn’t appear to be effective.

What? No, Narcan is specifically for opioid overdoses, not "narcotic" overdoses. Do your homework, lazy reporter. And if anyone actually used Narcan knowing it was K2, they need better training.

Goofy
08-16-2018, 12:10 PM
Wow. K2 is nasty shit and can cause permanent brain damage.



What? No, Narcan is specifically for opioid overdoses, not "narcotic" overdoses. Do your homework, lazy reporter. And if anyone actually used Narcan knowing it was K2, they need better training.
K2's a mountain :nono:

RBP
08-16-2018, 01:06 PM
K2's a mountain :nono:

K9 is a dog

Goofy
08-16-2018, 02:22 PM
K9 is a dog
:slap:

Muddy
08-16-2018, 02:34 PM
Darwin gonna sort it all out.

RBP
08-16-2018, 03:02 PM
Darwin gonna sort it all out.

I don't know, Muddy. Very easy to blame the addicts and waive it off. I am all for limited government, but protecting the citizens from outside invaders is a primary. That includes illegal immigration and war, but it also includes narcotics, big pharma included. Our government has failed miserably in that regard. There's as much opioid death in Chicago as bullet death. And that's just opioids. I don't see them shutting down the highway to protest, unfortunately.

Kill the Messenger shifted my opinion. And now, seeing opioid death almost exactly mirror Afghan poppy production, I have to wonder....

Edit: All the MSM reporting focusing on heroin coming from Mexico and never mentioning Afghanistan makes me MORE suspicious. :tinfoil:

Muddy
08-16-2018, 03:22 PM
I dunno man.. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.. You wouldn't see me smoking street trash in a park.. Why? Because its very unsafe.. And these weren't necessarily opioid addicts if it was K9 or whatever.. It's synthetic weed that we all know is a HUGE no-no.. I don't think that shit is even addictive..

Teh One Who Knocks
08-16-2018, 04:59 PM
I don't know, Muddy. Very easy to blame the addicts and waive it off. I am all for limited government, but protecting the citizens from outside invaders is a primary. That includes illegal immigration and war, but it also includes narcotics, big pharma included. Our government has failed miserably in that regard. There's as much opioid death in Chicago as bullet death. And that's just opioids. I don't see them shutting down the highway to protest, unfortunately.

Kill the Messenger shifted my opinion. And now, seeing opioid death almost exactly mirror Afghan poppy production, I have to wonder....

Edit: All the MSM reporting focusing on heroin coming from Mexico and never mentioning Afghanistan makes me MORE suspicious. :tinfoil:


I dunno man.. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.. You wouldn't see me smoking street trash in a park.. Why? Because its very unsafe.. And these weren't necessarily opioid addicts if it was K9 or whatever.. It's synthetic weed that we all know is a HUGE no-no.. I don't think that shit is even addictive..

I kinda have to side with Muddy on this one. Firstly, most of these people (the addicts) don't want help. They know what they're doing and they made their choice. And with the legalization of weed spreading across the country, you have a growing number of addicts advocates crying for more drugs to be legalized, including the hardcore ones. I wasn't for the legalization of marijuana in Colorado (I voted against it) and it's slowly turning this state into a shit hole. But what's done is done, you can't put that genie back into the bottle. And I'm not one of those people that believe the conspiracy that the government is covertly allowing these drugs (like Afghan heroin) into the country. Muddy is completely right, Darwin will sort this out with the people in the OP and the ones that want to continue to take illegal drugs when they know that a possible side effect is death and it can happen at any time. You can put these people into rehab time after time after time after time, and they keep going back to it.

But don't get me wrong, this issue in the OP concerning illegal street drugs is completely different than the opioid epidemic that has been fostered by big pharma as well as many, many doctors in this country readily over prescribing these pain meds. That is something the government needs to put an end to and reign in these doctors and big pharma execs that perpetuate this.

Muddy
08-16-2018, 06:03 PM
I have a lot more sympathy for heroin addicts than I do from some fools smoking synthetic weed from 7-11..

redred
08-17-2018, 01:18 AM
If you can get hold of a book called pill city it's crazy how gangs made money on this stuff