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The
incident began when sheriffs deputies and paramedics responding
to an emergency call found a young man unconscious in the back
seat of a car at about 10 p.m. Thursday night, the Santa Barbara
County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
Other students at the gathering told deputies that the victim,
who was rushed to a local hospital, had ingested alcohol along
with unknown amount of the pain reliever Oxycontin, the
sheriff's department said.
Deputies on the scene discovered a second male who had stopped
breathing and exhibited signs of an overdose. They revived him
with a nasal spray dose of naloxone, a drug used to temporarily
block the effects of opioid narcotics, before transporting him
to the hospital as well, the Sheriff's Office said.
Seven more students, all of whom had taken a blue pill, were
ultimately found exhibiting symptoms of an overdose at the
residence, according to the Sheriff's Office, and were taken to
the hospital.
Eight of the students have been released from the hospital. The
remaining student was expected to be released later on Friday,
the sheriff's department said.
A university spokeswoman could not immediately be reached for
comment.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 19,410 people died from fentanyl and other synthetic
opioids in 2016. Experts say that mass overdoses in one location
are extremely rare.
(Reporting by Dave Minsky in San Luis Obispo, California,;
Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Leslie Adler)
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