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Stephanie Sy: On Wednesdays, Sabrina Brandt volunteers at the Portland people's outreach project, a harm reduction organization that provides clean syringes, naloxone to reverse overdoses, and strips to test for the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, which increases the risk of overdosing. Sabrina Brandt: The more people that have it ...
Nelson, Chauvin's attorney, asked Langenfeld whether some drugs can cause hypoxia, or insufficient oxygen. The doctor acknowledged that fentanyl and methamphetamine, both of which were found in Floyd's body, can do so. The county medical examiner's office ultimately classified Floyd's death a homicide — that is, a ...
... death was caused not by the knee on his neck — as prosecutors contend — but by drugs, his underlying health conditions and adrenaline. An autopsy found fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Chauvin is also heard on body-camera footage defending his decision to an onlooker after Floyd was taken away ...
An autopsy revealed Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system when he died. Ross told jurors she took Floyd to the hospital in March 2020, just two months before his death, for what she later learned was an overdose. Shortly after Ross' testimony, lawyers for Floyd's family released ...
... painkillers throughout their relationship — testimony that could help prosecutors blunt the argument that drugs killed Floyd. Medical experts have said that while the level of fentanyl in his system could be fatal to some, people who use the drug regularly can develop a tolerance to it. Ross said they both ...
... will show that Mr. Floyd died of a cardiac arrhythmia that occurred as a result of hypertension, his coronary disease, the ingestion of methamphetamine and fentanyl, and the adrenaline throwing -- flowing through his body, all of which acted to further compromise an already compromised heart. Yamiche Alcindor: Nelson also laid ...
Floyd, 46, had none of the telltale signs of asphyxiation and had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, Nelson said. He said Floyd’s drug use, combined with his heart disease, high blood pressure and the adrenaline flowing through his body, caused a heart rhythm disturbance that killed him. “There ...
... m a single grandmother rolling the rock back up the hill. Stephanie Sy: How old are you, Carter? Child: Four. Stephanie Sy: There's no way you're 4. You look like you're 5. Carter's mother, Emily, Joanne's oldest daughter, died of a fentanyl overdose in 2016.
... raging overdose and addiction crisis that has deepened during the coronavirus pandemic. Opioids, which include prescription drugs and illegal substances such as heroin and illicit fentanyl, have been linked to more than 470,000 deaths in the U.S. since 2000. "Even though no amount of money can bring back ...
... in May, marking the largest monthly increases since 2015 when the federal government began collecting this data. As in recent years, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and carfentanil drove most overdose deaths, and increased by 38 percent between June 2019 and May 2020. All of these estimates are likely an ...
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