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Drug overdoses leave 1 dead, 21 in hospitals [IL]
    #5628122 - 05/14/06 11:25 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Drug overdoses leave 1 dead, 21 in hospitals
May 14, 2006 - Chicago Tribune

A potent, heroinlike drug is being blamed for most of the 22 people who were sent to area hospitals Saturday in the latest rash of overdoses, Chicago officials said.

One person died of an overdose, said a Fire Department official, although it is unclear if that person used the heroinlike drug. Most of the overdoses were reported on the West Side.

At least nine medical emergency calls originated Saturday morning, all within about a one-mile radius in the Humboldt Park area and all within two hours, police and fire officials said.

Shortly before 10 a.m., police got a call reporting two alleged drug users stumbling from a garage behind a home on the 1100 block of North Springfield Avenue, said Chicago Police Lt. Diane O'Sullivan.

Around this time, Chicago Fire Department employees responded to reports of a nearby heroin overdose and saw several men running from the garage, officials said.

Inside the garage, authorities found three men in a drug-induced stupor needing medical attention, said John Harding, field officer for the Fire Department. The two-car garage was littered with about 200 hypodermic needles, baggies of what appeared to be heroin, and tin foil, officials said.

"It was a shooting gallery, and it was used heavily," Harding said, referring to users injecting heroin. "This has been an ongoing problem for the last month. There's been clusters like this across the city."

Authorities believe the drug is a mixture of heroin and the prescription drug Fentanyl, a painkiller that, when mixed with heroin, magnifies the potency of straight heroin by about 100 times, Harding said.

Several residents of the Humboldt Park neighborhood said drug dealers give free samples in order to hook new users.

Police said they recovered drugs at the scene and have taken them in for testing. Three people were in custody Saturday afternoon, police said, but their role in the overdoses was not released. No charges had been filed by Saturday evening.

The incidents on Saturday follow a rash of heroin overdoses that swept across the West and South Sides recently. In a 24-hour period on the South Side last month, 25 people between ages 17 and 73 had overdosed, including a 51-year-old woman who died at her home.

Police said they are teaming with federal officials to disrupt the drug's flow into the city.


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Re: Drug overdoses leave 1 dead, 21 in hospitals [IL] [Re: veggie]
    #5628836 - 05/14/06 03:38 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

"Fentanyl, a painkiller that, when mixed with heroin, magnifies the potency of straight heroin by about 100 times, Harding said."

Right, because fentanyl does jack shit on its own. It only magnifies junk.

Test your theory tribune writer! Eat a gram!


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