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Police in Austin, Texas, said they responded to an 'outbreak' of over 50 opioid-related overdose calls between Monday and Tuesday morning that's been linked to as many as eight deaths. Authorities said they started receiving an increase in opioid calls around 9 a.m. Monday. It was concentrated in the downtown area but spread throughout the city, said Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services Assistant Chief Steve White.
'We have not experienced overdoses of this volume since 2015 when K2 struck our community,' he said, referring to synthetic marijuana that resulted in mass overdose. Eric Fitzgerald, the Assistant Chief for the Austin Police Department, said it is 'apparent that there is a deadly batch of illicit narcotics in our community.' Paramedics distributed over 267 doses of Narcan, an opioid overdose reversal drug.
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