One man is dead and a second survived after two more suspected heroin overdoses in Burlington on Thursday just hours apart, police said.
A 28-year-old man survived a suspected overdose after being found around 9:20 a.m. Thursday at a North Winooski Avenue home. He was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center for evaluation, police said.
Around 2 p.m., a 27-year-old man died after an apparent overdose in an Archibald Street home, police said. Police said they used naloxone, an overdose-reversing drug now carried by Burlington cops, to try to revive the man.
Detective Lt. Shawn Burke said the incidents do not appear to be related.
The news comes a week after Burlington police said that fentanyl, a powerful synthetic painkiller that has caused overdoses across the country, was responsible for a spate of three overdoses in the Queen City. All three victims survived those overdoses, police said.
Burke said the department is awaiting toxicology tests to determine whether fentanyl was involved in this week’s overdoses.
There were 105 drug-related deaths in Vermont in 2015, according to the Vermont Department of Health, up from 97 in 2014.
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When is it going to end! i can not even count the people we have lost to this dirty nasty drug. my kids mom is the biggest one on my mind. i am a long time weed head like it or not. but this drug sponsored by the US gov is ripping us apart. if you want to talk about national security threat to me this is it. It supports our enemy and kills our kids. Something needs to change. i see someone who sells this crap as a direct threat to my kids and yours so why is it when we see the big drug busts go down we see the same character right back on the street selling again? i am going to be 50 soon and yes i have tried lots of things and this. and had a bad past from choosing to use this crap cold turkey and weed have kept me out of the hell ever since. i know its a rant. but i love Vermont and Vermonters and we HAVE HAD ENOUGH !
It’s just sad. I no longer have my brother or a father because of this awful stuff. What’s it going to take? People just don’t get it, it’s all about the high. Prayers for the family’s.