{"id":3204,"date":"2023-01-03T06:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:22:14","slug":"unprecedented-ny-flood-of-fentanyl-causing-heartbreaking-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3204","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Unprecedented NY flood of fentanyl causing \u2018heartbreaking\u2019 loss<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Pippa woke in a panic in the middle of the night six years ago \u2014 anxious her son still wasn\u2019t home from celebrating his 29th birthday.<br \/>\n\u201cOh please don\u2019t be mad at me for being late. I\u2019m on the train. I\u2019m coming home,\u201d Pippa recalled her son, Dorian, responding to her frantic 4:30 a.m. text.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd then, he didn\u2019t\u2026 He never did make it,\u201d she told The Post recently. \u201cIt\u2019s as if I knew.\u201d<br \/>\nDorian died moments after the exchange \u2014 found in the bathroom of a Metro-North train by NYPD officers \u2014 having taken a small but fatal dose of fentanyl that was cut into another drug without his knowledge.<br \/>\nAt the time, his story was few and far between, but in the years since his death in 2016, fatal fentanyl-fueled overdoses have become all too common in New York.<br \/>\nThe synthetic opioid \u2014 which is at least 50 times more powerful than morphine and flows into the states from the southern border \u2014 has driven a surge of drug deaths across the country.<br \/>\nIn the Big Apple, authorities say it can now be found in nearly every illegal pill or drug peddled on the street.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d said NYC Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan, who worked as a homicide prosecutor during the surge of crack in the city in the late 1980s, and early 90s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/02\/the-unprecedented-flood-of-fentanyl-into-ny-is-causing-heartbreaking-loss\/\">Nypost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Pippa woke in a panic in the middle of the night six years ago \u2014 anxious her son still wasn\u2019t home from celebrating his 29th birthday. \u201cOh please don\u2019t be mad at me for being late. I\u2019m on the train. I\u2019m coming home,\u201d Pippa recalled her son, Dorian, responding to her frantic 4:30 a.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2861,1728,3320,3341,2831,2617,1237,2985],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-homicide","tag-illegal-pills","tag-new-york","tag-opioids","tag-police","tag-prosecutors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7563,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/7563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}