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The overdose death of an 18-year-old student in residence at the University of Victoria was likely preventable, and university officials fumbled the response during the medical emergency and in the days and months afterward, a new report has found.Sidney McIntyre-Starko died after ingesting a mixture of cocaine and fentanyl with two other young women in a campus residence bathroom on Jan. 23, 2024. The three friends did not know what was in the vial of white-grey powder they had obtained but divided the contents into three lines and snorted it, knocking two of them unconscious.The 123-...