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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 14

San Francisco Autopsy Confirms First Cychlorphine Death, Killing 16-Year-Old Teen

Updated

Updated · The New York Times · Sep 14

San Francisco Autopsy Confirms First Cychlorphine Death, Killing 16-Year-Old Teen

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 14

A 16-year-old San Francisco boy, Dante Paul Lacourte, died after taking cychlorphine, according to an autopsy that marked the drug’s first appearance on a city coroner’s report.
Narcan did not revive him when his mother found him unresponsive in bed on April 7, underscoring the drug’s lethality and its apparent difference from a typical fentanyl overdose she had feared.
The death in Lower Nob Hill signals that cychlorphine—a novel opioid-like drug—has reached San Francisco, giving local officials their first confirmed fatal case tied to the substance.
That first confirmed case points to a broader threat for a city already battling synthetic-drug deaths, with the autopsy providing an early warning that a new compound has entered the street supply.

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Where did a 16-year-old acquire a rare, globally emerging synthetic opioid that had never before appeared in San Francisco?

Could the rise of undetected designer drugs like cychlorphine render our current frontline overdose treatments completely obsolete?

If fentanyl test strips fail to detect cychlorphine, how can parents protect their teens from these invisible counterfeit pills?

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