Pubdate: Tue, 28 Feb 2006
Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
Copyright: 2006 Times Colonist
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/481

OVERDOSE DEATHS PROMPT DRUG WARNING FROM POLICE

A second overdose death in a matter of days have Victoria police 
warning about the possibility of bad or overly pure injection drugs 
on Victoria streets.

On Wednesday evening last week, police were called to four overdose 
incidents. Three survived but one woman in her 40s died, Insp. Clark 
Russell said.

Saturday morning Victoria police were called to a Douglas Street 
motel where they found another woman, 39, who had died of an apparent overdose.

"The preliminary investigation is that she probably died Friday 
night," Russell said.

He said police, who have not yet interviewed the overdose victims who 
survived, are waiting for toxicology reports to definitely identify 
the drug involved.

"I'm far from being a drug expert so I'm not sure if it's too 
powerful or the wrong combination or what. It's hard to say," he said.
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