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Roger Weeks, who said he continued smoking K2 after the hospital released him: “It’s like Russian Roulette.”
NEW HAVEN — ​“Bridgeport K2” — a particularly potent variety from a formula hatched in a Pfizer pharmaceutical lab — had returned to town. Zombie-like, smokers were collapsing, vomiting, going to the hospital, then stumbling back downtown … to repeat the routine.
For a day or two, the New Haven Green became a scene out of the Night of the Living Dead.