# 65

Fentanyl now reported as Long Island's leading cause of overdose deaths in 2016.

Report notes that 220 overdose deaths in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, in 2016, caused by Fentanyl.  Reporter mistakenly uses the term "after that he was on a mission to get high," while referencing a Central Nervous System (CNS) Depressant; which, of course, has taken the user down through nodding, sleep, coma and delivered them to death after signaling the respiratory system to perform a shutdown.

The article notes that users are taking what they believe is a "normal" dose, yet they are "falling out."  The reporter indicates that initial confirmation that the substance used is not heroin is the absence of any response when only one antidote administration of Narcan is given.  If revival occurs after two or more doses of Narcan, initial suspicion of Fentanyl is presumed until confirmation by laboratory testing.

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/226144948-story