OVERDOSE DEATHS PROMPT DRUG WARNING FROM POLICE

A second overdose death in a matter of days have Victoria police
warning about the possibility of bad or overly pure injection drugs
on Victoria streets.

On Wednesday evening last week, police were called to four overdose
incidents. Three survived but one woman in her 40s died, Insp. Clark
Russell said.

Saturday morning Victoria police were called to a Douglas Street
motel where they found another woman, 39, who had died of an apparent overdose.

"The preliminary investigation is that she probably died Friday
night," Russell said.

He said police, who have not yet interviewed the overdose victims who
survived, are waiting for toxicology reports to definitely identify
the drug involved.

"I'm far from being a drug expert so I'm not sure if it's too
powerful or the wrong combination or what. It's hard to say," he said.