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Spring Break overdose victims identified as West Point football players
Sun Sentinel ^

Posted on 03/11/2022 12:27:03 PM PST by ameribbean expat

WILTON MANORS — The six college students who overdosed on fentanyl-laced cocaine Thursday in Wilton Manors have been identified as students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Sun Sentinel has learned.

The football players were in town for Spring Break, renting a house in Wilton Manors that would become the scene of a desperate attempt to save lives.

After using the drug, at least two students went immediately into cardiac arrest. Two students who hadn’t taken the drug tried to give their friend mouth-to-mouth and received enough fentanyl that way to suffer overdoses themselves.

Fentanyl, commonly used by dealers to make batches of heroin or cocaine go further, is a killer that accounts for the vast majority of accidental overdose deaths in Broward County. A 2017 Florida law allows drug dealers to face murder charges if a fentanyl sale led to an overdose.

Four of the students were taken to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, while the other two were taken to Holy Cross Health. By Friday one person had been released, two remain in critical condition and on ventilators, and three are in stable condition, according to police.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fentanyl; usarmy; usmilitary; westpoint
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Wilton Manors is the very happy side of town.
1 posted on 03/11/2022 12:27:03 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Six fewer woke future officers in the Army.


2 posted on 03/11/2022 12:30:33 PM PST by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: ameribbean expat

End of their careers...or not...depending upon their race, gender, sexual orientation and pronouns.

Prayers for their recovery in any event. Stupid shouldn’t necessarily lead to death.


3 posted on 03/11/2022 12:31:51 PM PST by moovova
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To: ameribbean expat

Future army officers!


4 posted on 03/11/2022 12:32:06 PM PST by ryderann
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To: decal

No great loss to the world. OD on fentanyl by giving mouth to mouth???? Hmmmm.


5 posted on 03/11/2022 12:33:17 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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Wilton Manors is the very happy side of town.

A lot of homosapiens live there.

6 posted on 03/11/2022 12:34:12 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Expulsion….fortuitous to find out their poor judgment now…plus they can become xiden cabinet members…


7 posted on 03/11/2022 12:34:35 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: decal

As I read it four OD’d and two started CPR and then the two also needed medical care.


8 posted on 03/11/2022 12:40:32 PM PST by Irenic
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To: ameribbean expat

Yup, the military is full of men of great moral character.


9 posted on 03/11/2022 12:40:52 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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Ping


11 posted on 03/11/2022 12:41:56 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: decal

The ones who took the dope intentionally have probly just graduated to their next career. The ones who tried to save them are probably OK if they can still pass a physical? Mixing dope with the clotshots is most likely going to be fatal-——not a good look.


12 posted on 03/11/2022 12:42:09 PM PST by OldWarBaby
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To: decal

It would be interesting to know who nominated these guys.


13 posted on 03/11/2022 12:42:11 PM PST by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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Should have just done it the old fashioned way...got drunk.


14 posted on 03/11/2022 12:42:57 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ameribbean expat

100’s of % jump in fentanyl smuggling into the US under Brandon.

So, thanks for that, I guess.

My big question is whether these students were white. That’s the most important fact of this story and its left out!


15 posted on 03/11/2022 12:46:47 PM PST by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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After using the drug, at least two students went immediately into cardiac arrest. Two students who hadn’t taken the drug tried to give their friend mouth-to-mouth and received enough fentanyl that way to suffer overdoses themselves.
16 posted on 03/11/2022 12:47:46 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: ameribbean expat

When you think you are bulletproof you do stupid things.


17 posted on 03/11/2022 12:48:33 PM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: decal

Some things happen for the best!


18 posted on 03/11/2022 12:48:44 PM PST by chopperk
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To: ameribbean expat

Hey kids, it’s not your Daddy’s heroin these days.


19 posted on 03/11/2022 12:53:32 PM PST by Bullish (This is the most bloated and most inept govt in history.)
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To: ameribbean expat

West Point got tired of losing to Navy. Suffice it to say standards were lowered to recruit athletes. Also the Honor system at West Point is in shambles.


20 posted on 03/11/2022 12:54:30 PM PST by allendale
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