100 bags of fentanyl discovered in the bedroom of 13-year-old who passed away from overdose
The Hartford Police Department found over 100 bags of fentanyl in the bedroom of a Connecticut 13-year-old, overdosed and died earlier this month. The investigation is seeking information on the person who provided the teen the drugs. The police says the bags discovered in the room matched 60 bags found at the Sports and Medical Science Academy, a magnet school in Hartford where the unidentified 13-year-old overdosed on Jan. 13. The teen died the following Saturday according to police.
“This fentanyl was packaged in the same manner as the bags located at the school, had the same identifying stamp, and tested at an even higher purity level (60% purity),” the Hartford police said in a statement. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Fentanyl is a Schedule II prescription drug used to treat patients suffering from severe pain after surgery.
The drug is about 50 – 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the institute. The rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone, like fentanyl, increased 56%, from 11.4 per 100,000 in 2019 to 17.8 per 100,000 in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two other students at the school were sickened after allegedly being exposed to the drug, however, both students recovered, investigators said.
The police says there is no evidence that anyone other than the 13-year-old took the drugs to the school. According to police, an “individual who has history at the residence” and narcotics history is a person of interest but hasn’t been labeled a suspect.
Investigators have interviewed the teen’s mother, who they say has been cooperating.
“At this time, we have no evidence to support her having any prior knowledge of her son’s possession of the fentanyl,” the police said in a statement.
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