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As of Tuesday afternoon, emergency crews in Connecticut had responded to more than 90 overdose cases in two days, most from a park in downtown New Haven near Yale University.
The mayor’s office says DEA test results confirm samples of the drug were a form of K2 or “spice,” a cheap, synthetic cannabinoid.
K2 can be anywhere from 2 to 100 times more potent than THC and officials say there is no way to truly know what buyers are purchasing.
In fact, Connecticut officials said Yale New Haven Hospital told them some cases involve traces of fentanyl.
Luckily, no one died from the overdoses in Connecticut.
But in April, two people died in Chicago from a bad batch of K2, which cause severe bleeding in 54 other people.
In May, K2 caused dozens of people in Brooklyn to be hospitalized.
In July, Washington DC officials say about 300 people overdosed on the drug in a two-week span.