Issues develop over overdoses following music competition loss of life

Marcy Rodriguez of Montebello is attempting to choose up the items after dropping her 27-year-old son Eli simply days in the past.

Eli attended “Nocturnal Wonderland” in San Bernardino, a live performance competition billed as “one of the best digital dance music, tenting and artwork competition in Southern California.”

In some unspecified time in the future in the course of the competition, Eli ingested an unknown kind of drug. He overdosed and died on the scene.

Given the circumstances, his mom believes Eli died from fentanyl, a strong opioid making its means into all types of medication, usually as an additive, with lethal penalties in lots of circumstances.

“No matter it’s… it was a drug. It’s in opposition to the legislation,” Rodriguez stated. “These festivals permit it within the open and our youngsters are dying there.”

Rodriguez stated she was not even allowed to see her son’s physique as a result of docs had been involved that no matter killed him may poison or contaminate her if she bought too shut.

Fentanyl appears to be exploding on the black market and Eli’s loss of life follows what investigators consider had been the fentanyl-related deaths of two teenage women.

Melanie Ramos, 15, overdosed on campus at Bernstein High School in Hollywood and relations say 14-year-old Luna Hinojosa died from a fentanyl-laced drug in La Puente.

Although her ache and agony could also be unimaginable, Rodriguez is as decided and robust as she is hurting.

“Our grownup kids, our youthful kids are dropping sooner than leaves off the tree,” Rodriguez stated. “We want all of us to face collectively and battle this battle — this battle on medicine.”