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    Drug overdoses probed in USC student deaths, pointing to 'twin epidemics'

    by Colleen Shalby, Soumya Karlamangla, Teresa Watanabe and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Nov 14, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Some of the nine recent deaths of USC students are potentially linked to drug overdoses, reflecting a growing concern among educators and health officials about rising drug use by college-age adults and the need for greater mental health services at universities.

    Particularly worrisome is that investigators are probing whether any of the USC deaths are connected to tainted drugs - drugs touted as one thing but which actually contain more potent narcotics.

    "We all know that people that get drugs on the street have no idea what is in those drugs," USC President Carol Folt said Wednesday.

    Three of the USC deaths were by suicide, according to

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