{"id":506194,"date":"2026-02-28T23:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:25:13","slug":"toronto-police-warn-tainted-drugs-responsible-for-several-suspected-overdoses-in-downtown-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506194\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police warn tainted drugs responsible for several suspected overdoses in downtown core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police are warning the public after several suspected overdoses due to an unidentified narcotic being distributed in the Allan Gardens and Moss Park areas.<\/p>\n<p>Police say from February 26 to 28, they responded to several overdose calls along Sherbourne Street between Shuter Street and Gerrard Street East.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police tell CityNews that while there have been deaths related to the overdoses, the exact cause of death has not yet been determined in those cases.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators add they are concerned more people may have been sold or given the tainted drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the police, and anyone who becomes ill after consuming a narcotic is asked to go to a walk-in clinic, the hospital or call 911 immediately for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are warning the public after several suspected overdoses due to an unidentified narcotic being distributed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-506194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}