Meanwhile, Mayor Harp said the community is striving for more and is trying to educate anyone who may need help.ĭespite the enormous number of victims, not one life was lost due to an overdose on the green that day. “Historically, we’ve criminalized drug use and that’s the wrong way to approach people that are facing serious challenges with substance use disorder,” Elicker said.

“Those things are all nice but if you walk across this green every day, you realize that this problem is still severe and significant and still exists,” Elicker said.Įlicker said he like to see a different approach, one which views New Haven drug use as a health issue not a criminal one. In August 2018, over 100 people in New Haven, Connecticut overdosed on synthetic cannabinoids in a park near Yale University. Still some, including democratic mayoral candidate Justin Elicker, say more can be done. “We are then able to be prepared to a greater degree than we were for this K2 problem that we had last year.”Ĭommunity leaders said the advancements have produced positive results. “We can actually see how those overdoses come up I-95 and as they move up from the south we know it’s going to hit us at some point,” New Haven Mayor Toni Harp said. (CBSNewYork/AP)- People are saying 46 people overdosed Wednesday from a suspected bad batch of 'K2' synthetic marijuana at or near a city park in Connecticut.No deaths were. Officials said this technology allows them to track the path with which drugs enter the state. K2 or 'spice' is the drug behind more than 100 New Haven overdoses CNN What is K2 By Susan Scutti, CNN Updated 12:02 PM EDT, Sat AugLink Copied The dangers of synthetic. “We have all of our devices set for anywhere between five to 10 overdoses in the same location so we’re getting earlier intel that’s making a big difference,” Alston added. Church closures in Waterbury following a decline in parishioners and priests The drug users who frequent the 16-acre park in New Haven, Connecticut, which is just steps away from Yale University’s gothic campus, describe that reaction as a fallout, and so far it has.

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