Army football player among 7 hospitalized after overdoes on fentanyl-laced cocaine

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Two members of Army’s football program were involved in a drug-related incident Thursday during Spring Break at a Florida Airbnb vacation house.

CBS Sports reports six individuals, including an unnamed Army football player, were hospitalized after being found unconscious from overdosing on fentanyl-laced cocaine. The responding police agency, Wilton Manors Police Department, said in a news release that a seventh individual was later taken to the hospital.

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Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Steve Gollan said that after two individuals collapsed, two others became ill while trying to give them CPR from the residue on their bodies, The Associated Press reports. When paramedics arrived, six people at the home needed treatment and Gollan said the opioid-overdose-reversing drug naloxone was administered.

A general view of the Army Black Knights endzone logo prior to the 122nd Army/Navy college football game between the Army Black Knights and the Navy Midshipmen on December 11, 2021 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ.   (Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Two individuals remain in critical condition and on ventilators as of Friday, while three are in stable condition and one has been released, The AP reports. It is not known at this time the status of the football player, but two of the six individuals who overdosed are confirmed to be students at the U.S. Military Academy.

"The U.S. Military Academy is aware of the situation involving West Point cadets, which occurred Thursday night in Wilton Manors, FL," Army said in a statement to the South Florida Sun