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June 2018
Fentanyl
Date of Report: June 2, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Purple
Date of Report: June 8-9, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Downtown East
Description of batch: N/A
Cocaine
Date of report: June 6, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms after one small bump: user has low opioid tolerance
Time of reaction: N/A
Length of reaction: N/A
Place of incident: Toronto West
Description of batch: Looked the same as usual
May 2018
Fentanyl
Date of Report: May 18-20, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid)
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: N/A
Heroin (sold as)
Date of Report: May 18-20, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid)
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Not reported
April 2018
Fentanyl
Date of Report: April 17, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: N/A
Date of Report: April 19, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: N/A
Date of Report: April 20, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: N/A
Heroin (sold as)
Date of Report: April 5-8, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid); regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Not reported
Date of Report: April 11, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid); regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Not reported
Date of Report: April 12, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid); regular user with high tolerance: had taken less than 1/4 of a point
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Not reported
Date of Report: April 12, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid); regular user with high tolerance: had taken only 1/4 of a point
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Not reported
Date of Report: April 17, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid); regular user with high tolerance
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Not reported
Date of Report: April 25, 2018
Negative effects: Overdose (opioid); regular user, but had taken a break, so lower tolerance. A small crumb was smoked on foil; less than 1/16th of a point
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Smoked: purple, ashy colour, dense
March 2018
Cocaine
Date of report: March 6, 2018
Negative effects: Severe headache after injecting, immediate migraine, heart palpitations
Time of reaction: Not reported
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Outside Toronto
Description of batch: Injected
February 2018
Cocaine
Date of report: February 27, 2018
Negative effects: Serious trouble breathing after snorting
Time of reaction: 1-2 hours
Length of reaction: 4 hours +
Place of incident: Danforth East
Description of batch: Snorted
Crack-Cocaine
Date of Report: January 29-February 1, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, Passing out/loss of consciousness. Fentanyl in Crack-Cocaine.
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: 4+ Hours
Place of incident: Downtown East Side
Description of batch: tested in hospital, detected Fentanyl
Crystal Meth
Date of Report: February 26-27, 2018
Negative effects: Heavy sweating, noxious odor, blotchy skin, headaches, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, trouble breathing
Time of Reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of Reaction: Lasted until the following day
Place of incident: Downtown Centre
Description of batch: Sand-sized crystals, colour of champagne, heavy taste of drying agent, like acetone but harsher when injected
Heroin
Date of Report: February 24-25, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms
Time of Reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of Reaction: 10 minutes to half hour
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Injected
Date of Report: February 24-25, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms; passing out/loss of consciousness, loss of bladder control
Time of Reaction: Immediate
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Parkdale
Description of batch: Injected
January 2018
Crack-Cocaine
Date of Report: January 29-February 1, 2018
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, Passing out/loss of consciousness. Fentanyl in Crack-Cocaine.
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: 4+ Hours
Place of incident: Downtown East Side
Description of batch: tested in hospital, detected Fentanyl
Crystal Meth
Date of Report: January 17, 2018
Negative effects: Not used – batch was brought in for testing, and contained road ice salt and hand sanitizer
Time of Reaction: Not used
Length of Reaction: Not used
Place of incident: Downtown Central
Description of batch: contained road ice salt and hand sanitizer
Fentanyl
Date of Report: January 6-7, 2018.
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, Passing out/loss of consciousness
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: York-Weston
Description of batch: Fentanyl
Heroin
Date of Report: January 4, 2018. Incident occurred 3 times in the past.
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms; Passing out/ loss of consciousness; Shortness of breath/trouble breathing
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke.
Description of batch: Injected.
Opioid, unknown
Date of Report: January 4, 2018. Incident occurred 3 times in the past.
Negative effects: Death. Opioid overdose
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Downtown Centre
Description of batch: Drug was packaged in folded sports-betting lottery ticket. Substance was injected.
December 2017
Crack
Date of Report: December 3, 2017
Negative effects: Muscle rigidity, aches, pains. Tightness in face, jaw, neck & back. Hard to breathe. Vomited after first toke. Headache. Skin lesions or abscesses. Numbness. Heart palpitations/racing heart. Anxiety.
Time of Reaction: Immediate
Length of Reaction: 4+ hours
Place of incident: Not reported
Description of batch: Crumbly rock, suspected crystal meth was in it. Injected. Substance taken with alcohol and benzodiazepines (e.g. Vallium)
Heroin
Date of Report: December 30-31
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms; Loss of consciousness; Shortness of breath
Time of Reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Brown heroin. Injected. Taken with powerd. Yes, ambulance took person home.
Date of Report: December 6, 2017
Negative effects: Opioid overdose; Bluish lips/fingernails; Loss of consciousness; Not breathing, not responsive; Found in a parking garage; pronounced dead. Revived with 2 x nasal sprays and 2 x injections of Naloxone.
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Sold as heroin. Person had also taken within 3 hours of overdosing crack and fentanyl.
Date of Report: December 3, 2017
Negative effects: Opioid overdose symptoms, Passing out/loss of consciousness, Shortness of breath/trouble breathing, Stopped breathing
Time of Reaction: Not reported
Length of Reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Sold as heroin
Hydromorphone/Dilauded
Date of Report: December 5, 2017
Negative effects: Overdose. Naloxone taken to reverse x 2 doses.
Time of Reaction: 10-30 min
Length of Reaction: 4+ hours
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Injected
November 2017
Crack
Date of report: November 16, 2017
Negative effects: Heart palpitations/racing heart; Shortness of breath/trouble breathing; Shaking, side of neck was sore; Chest/lung pain
Time of reaction: Following day
Length of reaction: Continued for 1 day
Place of incident: Parkdale
Description of batch: Bought as white powder, then when cooked to smoke as Crack, was solid beige rock
Date of report: November 3-6, 2017
Negative effects: Skin lesions
Length of reaction: Continued for 1 day
Place of incident: Downtown East
Description of batch: Looked and smelled like normal crack
Crystal Meth
Date of report: November 2, 2017
Negative effects: Heart palpitations/racing heart; Weak, faint; Poor concentration; Confused; Dizzy; Nauseated; Weird hallucinations; Face broke out, open sores/hives
Length of reaction: More than 4 hours
Place of incident: Downtown Centre
Description of batch: Looked more yellow than usual, 1 solid piece: had to break it up; smelled funny. Injected.
October 2017
Cocaine
Date of report: October 5, 2017
Negative effects: Bluish lips/fingernails, passing out, heart palpitations
Time of reaction: Not reported
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: taken with Alcohol, Benzos and Heroin
Crack
Date of report: October 17, 2017
Negative effects: burning sensation, opioid overdose symptoms, numbness, excessive sweating
Time of reaction: 1-2 hours
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: East York
Description of batch: like crack, but glassy
Heroin
Date of report: October 16-17, 2017
Negative effects: burning sensation, blue lips/fingernails, passed out, numbness, heart palpitations, heart stopped, anxiety, shaking, vomiting blood, dry heaving
Time of reaction: not reported
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: North York
Description of batch: white powder, a little shiny, tested positive for Fentanyl
Date of report: October 9, 2017
Negative effects: Passing out, shortness of breath, trouble breathing
Time of reaction: Not reported
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: brown, pebbly, taken with Alcohol
September 2017
Cocaine
Date of report: September 27, 2017
Negative effects: shortness of breath, trouble breathing
Time of reaction: immediate
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: smoked
Crack
Date of report: September 27, 2017
Negative effects: vomited lots of blood
Time of reaction: immediate
Length of reaction: 1-2 hours
Place of incident: downtown centre
Description of batch: looked like normal rock, but smelled like perfume
Fentanyl
Date of report: September 21-24, 2017
Negative effects: Overdose: passing out
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: downtown centre
Description of batch: white powder
Date of report: September 21-24, 2017
Negative effects: Overdose: passing out
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: white powder
Date of report: September 16-17
Negative effects: overdose, passed out
Time of reaction: immediate
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: person also consumed crack-cocaine
Heroin
Date of report: September 28, 2017
Negative effects: Overdose: passing out, shortness of breath, trouble breathing
Time of reaction: immediate
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: taken with Alcohol
Date of report: September 27, 2017
Negative effects: Overdose: passing out
Time of reaction: Not reported
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: Not reported
Date of report: September 25-26, 2017
Negative effects: Overdose: passing out, shortness of breath, trouble breathing
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: 1-2 hours
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: brown, gummy, like a caramel chew
Date of report: September 25-26, 2017
Negative effects: Two people overdosed in home: blue skin, passed out, trouble breathing
Time of reaction: Not reported
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: injected
Date of report: September 19-20, 2017
Negative effects: Death, found in park
Time of reaction: not reported
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: not reported
Date of report: September 19, 2017
Negative effects: Overdose: trouble breathing
Time of reaction: Not reported
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: taken with Crystal Meth
Date of report: September 12-15, 2017
Negative effects: overdose: passing out, shortness of breath
Time of reaction: not reported
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: not reported, injected
Date of report: September 12-15, 2017
Negative effects: overdose
Time of reaction: not reported
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: not reported, injected
Date of report: September 11-14, 2017
Negative effects: overdose: person went to hospital
Time of reaction: not reported
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: not reported, injected
Date of report: September 11, 2017
Negative effects: overdose deaths x 2 people
Time of reaction: not reported, person found in room days later
Length of reaction: not reported, person found in room days later
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: not reported, injected
Date of report: September 11, 2017
Negative effects: shortness of breath, gurgling, rigid muscles, seizure
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Place of incident: Parkdale
Description of batch: dark grey, injected
August 2017
Cocaine
Date of report: August 24-27
Negative effects: Rash, itchiness, skin lesions, burning sensation; passing out; heart palpitations; lethargic within 30 min of dosing followed by vomiting.
Time of reaction: 30 minutes
Length of reaction: 1 hour
Place of incident: outside of Toronto
Description of batch: powder smelled like kerosene
Crystal Meth
Date of report: August 10-11
Negative effects: rash/itchiness, skin lesions, burning sensation, passing out, shortness of breath, heart palpitations
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: 30 minutes to an hour
Place of incident: Bloor St. W.
Description of batch: cloudy shards with white powder along edges, tasted like rubber
Heroin
Date of report: August 15, 2017
Negative effects: overdose: passed out, shortness of breath
Time of reaction: immediate onset
Length of reaction: 4+ hours
Place of incident: Danforth
Description of batch: clear fluid pre-loaded into syringe
July 2017
Cocaine
Date of report: July 1-7, 2017
Negative effects: Heart palpitations/racing heart, Shortness of breath/trouble breathing, seizure activity
Time of reaction: Immediate
Length of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: cocaine powder
Crack
Date of report: July 1-7, 2017
Negative effects: Rash/itchiness, Burning sensation, diarrhea
Time of reaction: 10 min to half hour
Length of reaction: Not reported
Place of incident: downtown centre
Description of batch: dry and chalky texture, solid in colour
Crystal Meth
Date of report: July 31, 2017
Negative effects: Numbness, entire arm went numb, couldn’t use hand; also experienced waves of emotions
Time of reaction: immediate onset
Length of reaction: 30 min
Place of incident: Parkdale
Description of batch: frosty glass appearance
Heroin
Date of report: July 27, 2017
Mode of consumption: Injected
Negative effects: overdose 2 people: tolerant users, used small amt (0.5 point). Both survived
Time of reaction: immediate onset
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Downtown West
Description of batch: purplish/reddish, looks like granite, person also consumed alcohol
If this reaction has happened before, how many times?: Yes, regularly 6+ times
Date of report: July 4-7, 2017
Negative effects: overdose, passing out, trouble breathing
Mode of consumption: Injected
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: not reported
Place of incident: Etobicoke
Description of batch: brown pebbles
If this reaction has happened before, how many times?: Yes, regularly 6+ times
June 2017
Crystal Meth
Date of report: June 5, 2017
Negative effects: Dizziness, falling over, extremely cold, urinated blood 10 minutes after dosing, heart palpitations, trouble breathing
Time of reaction: 2-10 minutes
Length of reaction: 10 hours
Place of incident: Parkdale
Description of batch: chunks of glass, person also consumed marijuana