Manchester is facing a spike in suspected overdoses, with three people dying in the past 24 hours. Officials said the past week had been one of the worst they had seen in a long time. Rick Chickering, who works maintenance for Victory Garage, said he found an overdose victim Monday morning. “I went and said, ‘Sir, sir’ and he was cold and he was dead,” Chickering said. “It was just a sad thing to see.” Chickering said he saw a needle lodged in the man’s right arm and blood all over his left. “I just feel a little emotional here and there, but I have to get used to it because it probably won’t be my first rodeo,” he said. Around the same time, police say a man was found dead in a tent less than a mile under Notre Dame Bridge.” Last week in the city of Manchester, we responded to 20 opioid overdoses, which is an unusually high number compared to what we’ve seen in recent months,” said Chris Stawasz, regional director for American Medical Response, which runs emergency ambulance services. in Manchester. Stawasz said AMR normally gets 50 to 55 overdose calls a month. He said he had no idea why there had been such a large spike recently. I’m trying to understand what “We don’t know what’s happening on the streets at the moment,” said Andrew Warner, Manchester’s director of overdose prevention. “A lot of people are dying, and we don’t have data on what’s actually in the substances.” Warner said people might con sum more drugs in cold weather because they’re more desperate, but he doesn’t know for sure. Warner said some spikes in overdoses have recently been triggered by the drug xylazine, which is normally used as a tranquilizer for large animals . While Narcan can stop an opioid overdose, it doesn’t work for xylazine. He said he didn’t know if the drug was associated with the most recent spike.
Manchester is facing a spike in suspected overdoses, with three people dying in the past 24 hours.
Officials said the past week had been one of the worst they had seen in a long time.
Rick Chickering, who works maintenance at Victory Garage, said he found an overdose victim Monday morning.
“I went and said, ‘Sir, sir’ and he was cold and he was dead,” Chickering said. “It was just a sad thing to see.”
Chickering said he saw a needle lodged in the man’s right arm and blood all over his left.
“I just feel a little emotional here and there, but I have to get used to it because it probably won’t be my first rodeo,” he said.
Around the same time, police said a man was found dead in a tent less than a mile below the Notre Dame Bridge.
“Last week in the city of Manchester we responded to 20 opioid overdoses, which is an unusually high number compared to what we have seen over the past few months,” said Chris Stawasz, regional manager. of American Medical Response, which handles emergencies. ambulance services in Manchester.
Stawasz said RAM normally receives 50 to 55 overdose calls per month. He said he had no idea why there had been such a spike recently.
“It is more likely than not that the potency of the product available will be much higher than what people are used to,” he said.
City officials said they were trying to figure out what was going on.
“We don’t know what’s happening on the streets at the moment,” said Andrew Warner, Manchester’s director of overdose prevention. “A lot of people are dying, and we don’t have data on what’s actually in the substances.”
Warner said people might use more drugs in cold weather because they’re more desperate, but he isn’t sure.
Warner said some spikes in overdoses have recently been triggered by the drug xylazine, which is normally used as a tranquilizer for large animals. While Narcan can stop an opioid overdose, it doesn’t work for xylazine. He said he didn’t know if the drug was associated with the most recent spike.
