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  • 25 people taken to the hospital after mass overdose in Baltimore

    From Leroy N. Soetoro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 12 19:06:39 2025
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    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-people-taken-hospital-mass- overdose-event-baltimore-rcna218140

    More than two dozen people were taken to the hospital Thursday after an apparent mass overdose in Baltimore, the local firefighters union said on social media.

    The fire department responded “to a mass casualty incident involving
    multiple individuals exhibiting overdose symptoms” in the Penn-North neighborhood Thursday morning, the International Association of Fire
    Fighters’ Baltimore unit said.

    At least 25 people were taken to the hospital, Baltimore fire spokesman
    John Marsh said.

    Five are in critical condition, NBC affiliate WBAL reported.

    It was not immediately clear what they overdosed on or what most of their conditions are.

    The Baltimore City Health Department said on Facebook it also responded.
    It was distributing naloxone, a medication that can reverse overdoses, throughout the neighborhood.

    Fire Chief James Wallace told WBAL the number of victims is expected to
    change as other overdoses from the area are identified.

    Officials are in the area to look for others who might be experiencing
    medical emergencies and are treating the area as an active crime scene,
    Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Jones said, according to WBAL.


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Leroy N. Soetoro on Sat Jul 12 14:36:22 2025
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    On 7/12/25 12:06, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-people-taken-hospital-mass- overdose-event-baltimore-rcna218140

    More than two dozen people were taken to the hospital Thursday after an apparent mass overdose in Baltimore, the local firefighters union said on social media.

    The fire department responded “to a mass casualty incident involving multiple individuals exhibiting overdose symptoms” in the Penn-North neighborhood Thursday morning, the International Association of Fire Fighters’ Baltimore unit said.

    At least 25 people were taken to the hospital, Baltimore fire spokesman
    John Marsh said.

    Five are in critical condition, NBC affiliate WBAL reported.

    It was not immediately clear what they overdosed on or what most of their conditions are.

    The Baltimore City Health Department said on Facebook it also responded.
    It was distributing naloxone, a medication that can reverse overdoses, throughout the neighborhood.

    But did they determine it was opiates that caused the mass overdosing? I ask because Naloxone is specific for opiates including the synthetics whch can be deadly.

    If the ovedoses had been from stimulants like methadrine or cocaine I doubt that Nalaxone would be useful.


    Fire Chief James Wallace told WBAL the number of victims is expected to change as other overdoses from the area are identified.

    Officials are in the area to look for others who might be experiencing medical emergencies and are treating the area as an active crime scene, Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Jones said, according to WBAL.


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  • From a425couple@21:1/5 to Leroy N. Soetoro on Mon Jul 14 12:57:12 2025
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    On 7/12/25 12:06, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-people-taken-hospital-mass- overdose-event-baltimore-rcna218140

    More than two dozen people were taken to the hospital Thursday after an apparent mass overdose in Baltimore, the local firefighters union said on social media.

    The fire department responded “to a mass casualty incident involving multiple individuals exhibiting overdose symptoms” in the Penn-North neighborhood Thursday morning, the International Association of Fire Fighters’ Baltimore unit said.

    At least 25 people were taken to the hospital, Baltimore fire spokesman
    John Marsh said.

    Five are in critical condition, NBC affiliate WBAL reported.

    It was not immediately clear what they overdosed on or what most of their conditions are.

    The Baltimore City Health Department said on Facebook it also responded.
    It was distributing naloxone, a medication that can reverse overdoses, throughout the neighborhood.

    Fire Chief James Wallace told WBAL the number of victims is expected to change as other overdoses from the area are identified.

    Officials are in the area to look for others who might be experiencing medical emergencies and are treating the area as an active crime scene, Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Jones said, according to WBAL.

    a folow-up from baltimore banner said
    At the start of their business day, from the depths of abandoned
    buildings and secluded alleyways, drug dealers will hand out “testers” — samples from a batch of drugs intended to gauge their potency and act as
    a marketing ploy.

    People, some of whom have ended up in Baltimore from places as far-flung
    as Florida, line up for a chance to get high. Often homeless and
    cash-strapped, they see a tester as a chance to stave off debilitating
    vomiting and diarrhea from drug withdrawal. While every high carries a
    deadly risk, testers can be especially dangerous in an increasingly unpredictable drug supply.

    This scene plays out day after day in open air drug markets in the Penn
    North neighborhood of West Baltimore, according to Donna Bruce, a
    community advocate who has worked there for years to connect people to treatment and other resources.

    Though authorities are still investigating what caused a mass overdose
    event in the neighborhood, Bruce and many others in the community
    believe it was an especially dangerous batch of testers that
    hospitalized more than two dozen people on Thursday. Community workers
    who serve people who use drugs immediately began alerting their networks
    to avoid using testers from the area, they said.


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