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Researchers reported that they discovered more than 100 bags of fentanyl in the room of a teenager from Connecticut who overdosed and died earlier in this month and are seeking information on the person who provided the drugs, according to ABC News.
The Hartford Police Department said Wednesday that the bags recovered from the room matched 60 bags found at the Academy of Sports and Medical Sciences, a magnet school in Hartford where the unidentified boy from 13 years old he overdosed on 13 from January. The boy died the following Saturday. said the police.
“This fentanyl was packaged in the same way as the bags located in the school, had the same identification stamp and was tested at an even higher purity level (80% purity),” Hartford Police said in a statement. a statement.
Fentanyl is a Schedule II prescription drug used for treat patients who experience severe pain after surgery, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It is from 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine, according to the institute.
The most recent cases of damage, overdose and deaths related to fentanyl in the United States are related to illegally manufactured fentanyl , according to the CDC. It is sold through illegal drug markets for its heroin-like effect. It is often mixed with heroin and/or cocaine as a combination product, with or without the user’s knowledge, to increase its euphoric effects.
The rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, such as fentanyl, increased by 50 %, of 04.,4 by 100, to 2019, to 17.8 by 100, 000 in 2020, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Two other public school students became ill after apparently being exposed to the drug, but both recovered, investigators said.
Police said there is no evidence that anyone not a 13 year old boy brought drugs to school.
An “individual who has a record at residence” and a narcotics record is a person of interest, but has not been labeled a suspect, according to police. Investigators also interviewed the teen’s mother, who they say has been cooperative.
“At this time, we have no evidence to support that she had prior knowledge of her son’s possession of fentanyl,” said the police in a statement.
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