{"id":2502,"date":"2021-11-19T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1179432401"},"modified":"2021-11-19T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T19:30:14","slug":"connecticut-officials-warn-of-marijuana-laced-with-fentanyl-after-reports-of-overdoses-thehill-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut officials warn of marijuana laced with fentanyl after reports of overdoses | TheHill – The Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health officials in Connecticut are warning residents about the possibility of fentanyl-laced marijuana circulating around the state. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Connecticut Department of Public Health<\/span><\/a> on Thursday said they have received nearly 40 reports of people who experienced opioid overdose symptoms and required naloxone, a drug used to reverse narcotic overdoses, for treatment. The patients claimed to have only smoked marijuana and denied ingesting any type of opioid. <\/span><\/p>\n

Authorities said the cases were \u201cdispersed across Connecticut.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

In October, authorities managed to secure a sample of marijuana at a scene of one of the overdoses in Plymouth<\/span>, Conn.<\/span> <\/span>An analysis of the sample confirmed the marijuana was laced with fentanyl. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first lab-confirmed case of marijuana with fentanyl in Connecticut and possibly the first confirmed case in the United States,\u201d Connecticut Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani said <\/span>in a release<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The cases were first reported in July, when a total of 11 such overdoses occurred. Nine cases were tallied in August and September and 10 in October. <\/span><\/p>\n

Health officials urged those using illegally obtained substances to \u201cknow the signs of an opioid overdose, do not use alone, and have naloxone on hand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Authorities are continuing to investigate the matter. <\/span><\/p>\n

This comes as more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States during the 12-month period ending April 2021. The figure is a record high and is a nearly 29 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). <\/span><\/p>\n

Opioids made up close to 75,000 deaths, while synthetic opioids like fentanyl killed 64,000 people.<\/p>\n

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Health officials in Connecticut are warning residents about the possibility of fentanyl-laced marijuana circulating around the state.  iStock The Connecticut Department of Public Health on Thursday said they have received nearly 40 reports of people who experienced opioid overdose symptoms and required naloxone, a drug used to reverse narcotic overdoses, for treatment. The patients claimed to have only smoked marijuana and denied ingesting any type of opioid.  Authorities said the cases were \u201cdispersed across Connecticut.\u201d  In October, authorities managed to secure a sample of marijuana at a scene of one of the overdoses in Plymouth, Conn. An analysis of the sample… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/connecticut-officials-warn-of-marijuana-laced-with-fentanyl-after-reports-of-overdoses-thehill-the-hill.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}