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Rising # of Deaths Blamed On Dangerously Potent, Fentanyl-Laced Heroin in the US & Canada

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Source: http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/01/26/wave-of-heroin-deaths-in-pittsburgh-continues/

22 Deaths Now Blamed On Dangerously Potent, Fentanyl-Laced Heroin
January 26, 2014 11:48 PM

UPDATED: 01/27/14 6:01 p.m.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) ? At least 22 people in Western Pennsylvania, including 15 in Allegheny County have now been killed by a deadly mix of heroin and the narcotic Fentanyl.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane made that announcement Monday...
 
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Re: PA: 22 Deaths Now Blamed On Dangerously Potent, Fentanyl-Laced Heroin; deaths in Maryland as well

Source: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/01/31/md-has-37-deaths-from-heroin-fentanyl-overdoses/


Deadly Batch Of Heroin Laced With Painkiller Hitting Md. Streets
January 31, 2014 11:38 PM
Christie Ileto

BALTIMORE (WJZ) ? A dramatic surge in heroin deaths is happening across the country. Health officials warn it?s because of a lethal new trend?spiking heroin with powerful painkillers.

Dozens of Marylanders have already died.

Christie Ileto has more on the deadly drug mixture...
 
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ble-100-deaths-country-rising-half-month.html


Killer batch of white heroin responsible for at least 100 deaths across the country... and rising

The killer dope is a 50/50 blend of heroin and fentanyl
It has killed 22 in Pittsburgh the past two weeks, and 37 more in Maryland since September and 22 more in Rhode Island this month
Officials from New Hampshire to Washington are blaming it for spikes in overdose deaths

By Ryan Gorman

Heroin overdose deaths across the country are spiking as a deadly new variant of the drug mixed with a powerful painkiller is spreading from New Hampshire to Washington State...
 
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Source: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...in-nyc-apartment-from-apparent-drug-overdose/

Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in NYC apartment from apparent drug overdose
By Mike Jaccarino, Jana Winter
Published February 03, 2014
FoxNews.com


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A friend found his body in the apartment and phoned police. Hoffman was alone in his bathroom when he was discovered with a heroin-filled needle in his arm, law enforcement sources said.

One police source told FoxNews.com that authorities are investigating whether Hoffman received a more potent type of heroin that's being blamed for numerous deaths over the past two weeks, first in the Pittsburgh area and later along the east coast. The substance combines heroin and fentanyl, an opiate used to soothe the pain of cancer patients, and is being blamed for dozens of deaths across the country, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

Police are "looking at if (Hoffman) had the bad batch going around," the source told FoxNews.com...
 
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Source: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/20...ses_deaths_were_the_result_of_tainted_he.html

Fentanyl outbreak reaches NJ: Police say tainted heroin led to 9 overdoses, deaths
By James Queally/The Star-Ledger
on February 06, 2014 at 7:00 AM, updated February 06, 2014 at 11:28 AM


At least nine people have died or been hospitalized in New Jersey in recent months after overdosing on fentanyl-laced heroin, and law enforcement officials say they fear the potent synthetic chemical, which has been linked to dozens of deaths in the Northeast, is spreading like wildfire throughout the Garden State...
 
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Source: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...ramatic-drug-overdose-death-increase/7324077/

Butler Co. sees 'dramatic' increase in overdose deaths (Ohio)
The Enquirer 6:41 p.m. EDT April 4, 2014
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...The coroner's office has investigated 114 deaths so far in 2014, according to a news release issued Friday. Fifty of those people died of an overdose.

That is a 139 percent increase in drug deaths compared to the same period last year - a "dramatic increase," according to the coroner's office.

Eleven of the year's 50 overdose deaths involved heroin. Ten involved heroin combined with fentanyl, a pain killer that can depress the user's respiratory drive so they quit breathing...
 
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Louisiana House approves heroin bills to double penalties, expand access to overdose antidote

By Emily Lane, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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on April 03, 2014 at 7:07 AM, updated April 03, 2014 at 7:13 AM

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House Bill 332, sponsored by state Rep. Joe Lopinto, R-Metairie, increases the mandatory minimum penalty for heroin producers and distributors from five to 10 years and sets a mandatory minimum of two years for possession. It passed the full House and will now be sent to the Senate.
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Moreno's bill expands access to Naloxone, also called by its brand name Narcan, which is a prescription drug commonly administered by emergency room doctors to reverse the effects of opiate overdoses. Providing first responders with the drug would give overdose victims a better chance of survival, since minutes are critical in the midst of a potentially fatal overdose.

East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. William "Beau" Clark testified in favor of the bill, saying the increase in heroin deaths from 2012 to 2013 in East Baton Rouge Parish was seven-fold, from 5 to 35. So far in 2014, he's confirmed seven opiate overdoses with two more pending, putting the year on par with last.

"In southeast Louisiana, at least 144 people died of heroin overdoses (in 2013)," Moreno said.

Rep. Bernard LeBas, D-Ville Platte, said he spoke with his son, an emergency room doctor, who said he has injected the drug into overdosing patients "thousands" of times. He supported expanded access but had questions about implementation.

"It saves lives. I just want to make sure (first responders) get the proper training," LeBas said.
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Full text:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/louisiana_house_approves_heroi.html
 
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Source: http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20140417/FON0101/304170392/?nclick_check=1


7 heroin deaths in past 5 weeks in Winnebago County (WI)
Apr. 17, 2014 |

...Twenty-seven people died from drug overdoses in 2012, a number that dropped to 15 in 2013. However, Busby said 10 people have died from overdoses so far this year and there were seven suspected heroin deaths during the five week period investigators spent on Martinez?s death...
 
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Source: http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Delaware-confirms-6-fentanyl-laced-heroin-deaths-5483224.php

Delaware confirms 6 fentanyl-laced heroin deaths
Published 9:36 am, Friday, May 16, 2014

NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) ? Delaware officials say there have been a total of six overdose deaths related to fentanyl-laced heroin this year.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner announced Friday that toxicology reports confirm the fentanyl-laced heroin overdose deaths of four men and two women ranging in age from 28 to 58. The deaths occurred over a period of about two weeks in March and April in New Castle and Sussex counties...
 
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Source: http://www.delawareonline.com/story...recent-deaths-fentanyl-laced-heroin/10098287/

Two recent deaths from fentanyl-laced heroin
robin brown, The News Journal 5:55 p.m. EDT June 6, 2014

Eight people have died this year in Delaware from fentanyl-related overdoses
Drug is said to be 50 to 100 times more powerful than heroin

State health officials on Friday confirmed two more deaths from fentanyl-laced heroin, pushing Delaware?s death toll beyond that of the last such overdose outbreak.

The two overdose deaths, both in April, bring the year?s total to eight, the Department of Health and Social Services announced...
 
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Source: http://ksn.com/2014/08/07/deadly-overdose-outbreak/
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Deadly Overdose Outbreak
By NECN-TVPublished: August 7, 2014, 5:39 pm

WORCESTER, Massachusetts (NECN) ? Officials in Worcester, Massachusetts are warning drug users in the city to avoid heroin after at least nine drug overdose deaths since Friday...

...Police Chief Gary Gemme said heroin is suspected in at least eight deaths. The ninth was discovered Wednesday. He said significant resources are being devoted to finding the deadly drugs...
 
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Source: http://www.wlwt.com/news/authoritie...-its-way-into-southwest-ohio/27379714#!bzg1YD

Authorities warn of tainted heroin making its way into southwest Ohio
Officials: Batch may be mixed with fentanyl or cocaine
Published 3:58 PM EDT Aug 08, 2014

...Since last weekend the Montgomery County Coroner?s Office has confirmed eight overdose deaths related to drug use...
 
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Source: http://www.golocalworcester.com/news/worcester-heroin-overdoses-by-the-numbers

slides: Worcester Heroin Overdoses by the Numbers
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Nicholas Handy, GoLocalWorcester Contributor

Ripples were sent through the Worcester community after learning that nine, potentially 10 citizens had died of suspected heroin overdoses in the first week of August.

While the city of Worcester has declared a public health advisory and is doing everything that they can to help prevent heroin overdoses from happening in the city, public health officials say that these overdoses are still happening at an alarming rate.

?Over the course of the weekend ? from noon on Friday to Sunday evening ? we had an additional 10 overdoses,? said Derek Brindisi, the Worcester City Director of Public Health. ?We don?t yet know what percentage of them resulted in deaths. This follows the nine, potentially ten deaths in the first week of August. We are currently working with all of our stakeholders to try to get to the bottom of this.?...
 
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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...o-superdrug-heroin-and-fentanyl-mix-1.2735596


Overdose deaths linked to 'superdrug' heroin and fentanyl mix
Coroner investigating a spate of possible overdose deaths
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Aug 13, 2014 5:19 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 13, 2014 5:31 PM ET

A supply of “bad heroin” that has reportedly killed three people in the last week in Hamilton is likely linked to a hyper-potent version of the drug mixed with fentanyl, a former opioid user says.

Coroner’s office officials say they can't confirm the fentanyl connection yet, but lacing or mixing heroin with the powerful prescription painkiller to create a kind of “super high” is also popping up in other parts of the country – often with terrible results...

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Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...-up-your-heroin-hamilton-police-say-1.2736430

We will come pick up your heroin, Hamilton police say
Police and public health mobilizing to stop deaths from bad heroin

By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Aug 14, 2014 11:50 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 14, 2014 9:15 PM ET

Hamilton police and the city are taking unprecedented steps to protect drug users from a more powerful and lethal batch of heroin in Hamilton – even providing an amnesty on criminal charges to anyone who turns over drugs to the police.

It's all part of a move towards harm reduction strategies that stress safety over criminalization, officials say. That includes delivering new overdose prevention kits right to users' doors, not laying criminal charges and even picking up illicit drugs from the people who use them in an attempt to figure out just what is killing people...
 
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Source: http://www.scnow.com/living/health/article_1368bf9a-31ef-11e4-918b-0017a43b2370.html

Heroin death toll skyrockets in New York City
Posted: Monday, September 1, 2014 11:46 am
By Mark Berman Washington Post News Service

The number of people who died from unintentional heroin overdoses in New York City last year was the highest in a decade, according to data released last week by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

In New York, where the overall rate of drug overdose deaths has dramatically risen since 2010, a national problem is playing out on the city's streets. The number of overdoses involving heroin has significantly increased since 2010 and accounted for more than half of the city's overdoses last year. And more than three-quarters of the overdoses involved an opioid...
 
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Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/281258.php


Emerging street drug fifteen times stronger than heroin
Thursday 21 August 2014 - 12am PST

Emergency physicians should expect "an upswing in what on the surface appear to be heroin overdoses," but are actually overdoses tied to acetyl fentanyl, an opiate that is mixed into street drugs marketed as heroin. The looming threat of another unregulated quasi-legal drug is detailed online in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("The Potential Threat of Acetyl Fentanyl: Legal Issues, Contaminated Heroin, and Acetyl Fentanyl 'Disguised' as Other Opiates").

"What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it," said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. "A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work. Larger or additional doses are necessary when acetyl fentanyl is responsible. It's never good to lose time between overdose and treatment." ...
 
Source: http://www.wzzm13.com/story/news/in...watchdog/2015/04/06/fentanyl-deaths/25376913/


Fentanyl deaths linked to heroin soar in Kent County (Michigan)
John Hogan, WZZM 6:20 p.m. EDT April 6, 2015

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) - A highly-addictive painkiller called fentanyl is now being used in conjunction with heroin, helping push overdose deaths in Kent County to a new high.

About 38 percent of the 67 confirmed overdose deaths in Kent County last year are due to heroin or fentanyl, according to numbers from the Kent County Medical Examiner's Office.

"We've seen a great increase in the amount of fentanyl cases in the last year,'' Kent County Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Cohle said. "It's really spiked upward. It's cheaper and more readily available than heroin.''...
 
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