Fontana said a widely used anti-opioid-overdose drug given to some victims at the park did not seem to be effective, but the same drug did help some patients recover when given in higher doses at hospitals. Officials said the blood of Wednesday's victims was being tested to see what exactly they ingested. Synthetic marijuana, which generally is plant material sprayed with chemicals that mimic the high from real marijuana, has been blamed for overdoses across the country. No deaths were reported in either outbreak. ET More than 70 people overdosed in or around a historic Connecticut park near the Yale University campus on Wednesday after receiving what authorities believe was synthetic. The city also saw more than a dozen synthetic marijuana overdoses in late January. New Haven first responders were called to a similar overdose outbreak on the Green on July 4, when more than a dozen people were sick from synthetic marijuana. Police did not immediately release the name of the man who was arrested, saying they were waiting for victims to positively identify him. "We literally had people running around the Green providing treatment," said Rick Fontana, the city's emergency operations director. New Haven recorded the most overdose deaths and Hamden the second most, with 120 and 15 fatalities, respectively, the report indicates. Emergency responders rushed to one victim as officials were giving a news conference nearby late Wednesday morning. There were 141 overdose deaths last year across New Haven, Hamden, North Haven, Woodbridge and Bethany, up from 101 in 2019, according to the report. Some became unconscious and others vomited, authorities said. Paramedics and police officers remained at the park all day as more people fell ill. "It is taking people out very quickly, people having respiratory failure. "Do not come down to the Green and purchase this K2," New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell told WVIT-TV. Police said they arrested a man believed to be connected to at least some of the overdoses. Most of the overdoses were on the New Haven Green, a popular, historic downtown park that borders part of Yale University, and officials said they expected the overdose total to increase. No deaths were reported, but officials said two people suffered life-threatening symptoms. (AP) - Forty-six people overdosed Wednesday at or near a Connecticut park from a suspected bad batch of "K2" synthetic marijuana, requiring paramedics to be stationed there to provide treatment, authorities said. No deaths were reported, but authorities said two people showed life-threatening symptoms.NEW HAVEN, Conn. “At that point, we’d go help that patient, and while helping that patient, another person went down. “This was a particularly odd, rare occasion where (there was) call after call for man down, obviously with symptoms of some kind of overdose, and at the time of getting that patient packaged and transported to the hospital, we’d see another immediately fall down, right there,” Jones said. Ernest Jones, an emergency medical technician for the New Haven Fire Department, told the Register he’s had his job for five years, and never had such an abnormal day at work. He’s out cold,” an unidentified bystander shouted, according to the New Haven Register. “We have a guy laid out in the alleyway, unresponsive, eyes wide open. Officials said most of the overdoses happened on the New Haven Green throughout the day on Wednesday. As many as 76 people overdosed on what’s believed to have been synthetic marijuana at or near a Connecticut city park as fellow parkgoers watched in horror.
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