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- Nine students from the University of California, Santa Barbara suffered an apparent mass overdose of prescription opioids at a party.
- Students were found unconscious or had inhibited breathing.
- Over 19,400 people died from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids in 2016.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Reuters) – Nine students from the University of California, Santa Barbara suffered an apparent mass overdose of prescription opioids at a party and were taken to a local hospital, police said on Friday.
The incident began when sheriffs deputies and paramedics responding to an emergency call found a young man unconscious in the back seat of a car at about 10 p.m. Thursday night, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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