Six West Point cadets on spring break in Fort Lauderdale were hospitalized after overdosing on a powder substance laced with the drug fentanyl, police said Friday.
Highlights
- Six West Point cadets on spring break in Fort Lauderdale were hospitalized after overdosing on a powder substance laced with the drug fentanyl.
- Authorities in Broward County, Florida, have made an arrest in connection to the overdoses.
- The names of the students have not been released, though police said the college students are from New York.
- Fentanyl is a synthetic drug that can be up to 50 times stronger than heroin, up to 100 times strong than morphine and commonly resembles prescription drugs, the CDC says.
- The CDC says last year saw a record high of drug overdose deaths, with more than 100,000 people dying from April 2020 to April 2021.