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‘It is taking people out’: More than 70 people OD on synthetic marijuana in one day near Yale

Hour after hour, people kept dropping. Sirens blared throughout the afternoon. There were so many overdoses — people passed out, vomiting, convulsing — that emergency workers could hardly sprint fast enough to keep up.

“Even while we were trying to return people to service, they were passing victims on the ground,” Fire Chief John Alston told reporters.

Over the course of 24 hours in New Haven, Connecticut, Wednesday, more than 70 people overdosed on what authorities believe to be synthetic

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