Police find the bodies of three men, with white powder nearby, in a South Spring Street apartment after relatives requested a welfare check.
Three men were found dead in a downtown Los Angeles apartment early Thursday after ingesting fentanyl, the latest instance in what officials say is a nationwide epidemic of overdoses and deaths related to the powerful synthetic opiod.
One LAPD officer was taken to a hospital after possibly inhaling the drug accidentally and was stable, Podany said.Fentanyl, which is approximately 100 times more potent than morphine, is used to treat severe pain in medical settings, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. California has seen a spike in fentanyl overdoses in recent years, with 3,946 deaths reported in California in 2020, according to the state Department of Health.
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