Hazmat Crews Respond To Lawrence Apartment After Fatal Overdoses

LAWRENCE (CBS) — A mixture of cocaine and fentanyl is to blame for two deadly overdoses that prompted a hazmat response Monday morning. Lawrence and Massachusetts State Police rushed to a Garden Street apartment just before six a.m. after a man called to say he may have ingested some sort of dangerous substance. Police entered the apartment to find two men dead. A third, the man who called 911, was taken to Lawrence General Hospital. His condition is not yet known. State and Lawrence Police respond to a double fatal overdose on Garden Street. (WBZ-TV) The survivor told police that he had suffered nerve damage, and had apparently been lying on his side for as much as a whole day. Police found a substance inside the apartment that they said could have been the synthetic opioid carfentanil–an elephant tranquilizer ten thousand times more potent than morphine. After testing, it was determined to be a mixture of cocaine and fentanyl. Carfentanil can be absorbed through the skin, and it’s possible to overdose by simply touching it–so first responders at the scene wore hazmat gear. First responder in hazmat suit investigates fatal drug overdose in Lawrence (WBZ-TV) Some of the hazmat crews were having their uniforms washed down after exiting the house. The State Police bomb squad also responded, as authorities weren’t sure if there were unstable drug manufacturing materials in the apartment. One neighbor told WBZ-TV’s David Robichaud this isnR...
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