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Florida Politics reports:
The House voted against the decriminalization of fentanyl test strips in Florida on Friday, angering some lawmakers in the closing hours of the 2022 Legislative Session. Brandon Democratic Rep. Andrew Learned urged House colleagues to decriminalize the strips, alongside other Democratic lawmakers on the House floor.
“This is a product that doesn’t cause harm in any way,” said Learned, who proposed an amendment to decriminalize the strips. “The only thing it does is reduces harm. The only thing it does is save Floridians by simply telling people whether or not fentanyl exists.”
The Miami Herald reports:
The six students who overdosed Thursday with a powder possibly laced with fentanyl in a Wilton Manors home were identified Friday as West Point cadets, the military academy said.
Around 5 p.m. Thursday, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue was called to respond to an overdose situation in the 800 block of Northwest 29th Court, Battalion Chief Stephen Gollan said. When fire rescue arrived to the house, he said there were several people in the front yard and a person inside the home was trying to administer CPR.
Gollan, NBC6 reported, said four had taken a substance believed to be cocaine laced with fentanyl and their two friends were exposed to the fentanyl when they tried to give them CPR.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports:
One person was arrested late Friday after six college students overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine Thursday in Wilton Manors, police said. The cadets were in town for Spring Break, renting a house in Wilton Manors that would become the scene of a desperate attempt to save lives.
After using the drug, at least two of the victims went immediately into cardiac arrest. Two who hadn’t taken the drug tried to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and absorbed enough fentanyl that way to suffer overdoses themselves.
Police have not released the name of the person arrested in connection with the overdoses or specified what charges the person faces.