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According to news reports, a recent mass overdose in Baltimore may involve a new drug previously unknown to authorities and immune to the life-saving effects of Naloxone. It’s suspected that a bad batch of drugs is responsible for 27 people in the West Baltimore area being sent to the hospital.
Hidden Dangers
Officials are currently investigating the mass overdose event in Baltimore. They’ve found that the bad batch of street drugs contained N-methylclonazepam, which is a derivative of benzodiazepines, like Xanax and Valium.
When taken, it can cause intense sedation. These severe sedative effects match the symptoms and experiences of the people who overdosed on July 10th, 2025. Not even Narcan was enough to reverse the overdose effects.
Immune to Overdose Reversal Meds
Narcan (naloxone) is the medication that restores normal breathing after an opioid overdose. But when Narcan was used in this case, many people were still unconscious. That could be due to the level of the benzodiazepine derivative in the mixture, which Narcan cannot reverse.
Researchers with the National Institute of Standards and Technology reviewed the samples and reported they’d not found this combination of street drugs before. The Baltimore Police are still investigating the overdose situation and their crime lab also tested samples of the drug.
Officials are warning the community about illicit drugs, which often contain a plethora of other ingredients. Samples may have caffeine, mannitol, quinine, and acetaminophen.
The drug manufacturers add numerous substances to prolong effects or, worse, increase them. These changes can make it hard for physicians to treat an overdose.
This new evolution in drug combinations has lawmakers, medical teams and officials scrambling. Many are seeking proactive and urgent measures to get these adulterated drugs off the streets and to develop new overdose reversal medications that are more effective on drugs laced with sedative compounds.
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