![]() ![]() “Crack cocaine, potentially laced with opioids, is what we are suspecting in our preliminary reports thus far,” said Maritza Bond, New Haven’s public health director. Police in the Connecticut city of New Haven have arrested one man in connection with a spate of synthetic marijuana overdoses that sickened scores of people at a park this week. While autopsy results are pending from the state Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, initial reports indicate that this cluster of cases involved a deadly combination of drugs, with the mean age of those who died around 38 years old. Authorities believe they overdosed on synthetic marijuana. The deaths occurred throughout New Haven with three reported in Newhallville and four in the Hill neighborhood – two of the city’s lower-income communities. EDT At least 70 people overdosed in a park in New Haven, Conn., on Aug. In 2016, West Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Kentucky had the highest drug overdose-related. The mass overdose has been blamed on a bad batch of synthetic marijuana. ![]() “There is a very dramatic increase in the number of African American and Latino adults dying from overdose.” A man shoots heroin in a park in the South Bronx on June 7, 2017, in New York City. The total victims in Wednesdays mass overdose incident in New Haven, Connecitcut has hit 76. “From the start of the pandemic in 2020, the rate has gone up much more quickly than it did statewide, in the New Haven area,” said Mark Abraham, executive director of DataHaven. Bill Sikes / AP A police officer speaks to a man walking on New Haven Green on Wednesday. 25 – higher than the average of two per week. At Least 76 People Overdosed In A New Haven Park After Taking Synthetic Marijuana Many of the victims were in the park near Yale University when they started showing symptoms. ![]() The city of New Haven has experienced a surge in fatal opioid overdoses in the last two weeks, with 12 deaths since Jan. ![]()
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