“It’s not CSI, we don’t find out the next day”, Const. Rob Carver told media at a Monday morning press conference.
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Police in Toronto are also warning people about fentanyl.
Police think the Fentanyl may have been mixed with cocaine.
A third non-lethal overdose also happened in Winnipeg on the weekend, and Carver said fentanyl was not a factor.
“The consumption of any drug, including Fentanyl, is not one without great risk”.
The odourless and tasteless narcotic is extremely potent with as little as two milligrams of fentanyl enough to cause overdose and death.
Police in Vancouver said drug users believed the pink-coloured drug they had purchased was heroin but did not know it contained other toxic chemicals.
Page couldn’t say how many fentanyl-related overdose deaths have occurred in Toronto, explaining that officers are now working with Ontario’s coroner to determine numbers. Just days ago, the CCSA released a new report charting a rise in fentanyl-related deaths in Canada between 2009 and 2014.
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