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Five individuals were rushed to the hospital for possible drug overdoses in Granada Hills Saturday morning.

A seventh teen was a ‘victim’ of ingesting pills believed to be linked to the death last week of a 15-year-old girl who was a student at Bernstein High School in Hollywood, the LAPD said Tuesday.

San Diego County could soon have a new weapon in its arsenal to help fight its growing problem with opioid addiction.

The Centers for Disease Control revealed Wednesday that the U.S. set a grim record in 2021 with 107,000 overdose deaths.

The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes.

Drug overdose deaths top 100,000 annually for the first time, driven by fentanyl, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Provisional data shows drug overdose deaths rose by 28.5% over a 12-month period ending in April 2021.

All across Southern California, fentanyl deaths are happening at an alarming rate. And with the recent crackdown on doctors and companies for flooding the market with pain pills, people are increasingly turning to the online black market where they’re unwittingly buying dangerous fake drugs. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 I-Team at 11 p.m. on March 28, 2022.

Four people apparently overdosed on opioids and died in about an hour in Anaheim Monday.

Pop star Demi Lovato is renouncing their “California sober” ways and says they’re now entirely sober, just three years after nearly dying during a drug overdose.

Experts believe the top drivers are the growing prevalence of deadly fentanyl in the illicit drug supply and the COVID-19 pandemic.