Wilton Manors, Florida — Six college students on spring break overdosed on what gave the impression to be cocaine laced with fentanyl and have been hospitalized in Fort Lauderdale Thursday, and one was in essential situation, CBS Miami experiences. It occurred at an Airbnb.
4 went into cardiac arrest after ingesting the drug earlier than two pals tried to assist by performing CPR. That is once they have been additionally uncovered to the drug, the station says.
Fort Lauderdale Hearth Division Battalion Chief Steve Gollan instructed CBS Miami 5 have been in steady situation.
Gollan instructed WPLG-TV the opioid-overdose-reversing drug naloxone was administered.
"These are wholesome younger adults, faculty college students within the prime of their life," Gollan mentioned. "Getting this drug into their system, it is unknown what the restoration can be on the essential particular person."
He instructed CBS Miami the incident "brings nice concern that there could possibly be different ODs over the following couple of days. Clearly if there is a unhealthy batch, it isn't remoted simply to at least one purchaser. It usually goes to everybody that purchases that very same substance from whoever they received it from."
One neighbor noticed to CBS Miami that, "They appear like good youngsters, typical faculty youngsters. Rowdy within the pool, however they do not deserve this."
Fentanyl is an unpredictable and highly effective artificial painkiller blamed for driving a rise in deadly drug overdoses. It is 50 to 100 occasions stronger than morphine and used to deal with extreme ache, the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention says. It additionally slows an individual's respiration and coronary heart charge.