{"id":506378,"date":"2026-03-01T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506378\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T01:25:07","slug":"toronto-police-warn-about-unidentified-narcotic-linked-to-overdoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506378\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police warn about &#8216;unidentified narcotic&#8217; linked to overdoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have issued a public safety alert after an unidentified narcotic has been linked to a number of suspected overdoses over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they responded to several overdose calls in the areas of Allan Gardens, Moss Park and Sherbourne Street between Shuter Street and Gerrard Street East between Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cInvestigators are concerned there may be more people who have been sold or given these opioid drugs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/65314\/\">police said in a news release on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf anyone suffers serious illness after consuming a narcotic, they should attend a hospital emergency room, call 9-1-1, or go to a walk-in clinic immediately for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 416-808-5100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have issued a public safety alert after an unidentified narcotic has been linked to a number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-506378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506378","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=506378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}