NJ.com TOMS RIVER — Police in all 33 towns in Ocean County early next year will begin carrying an antidote that can revive people who overdose on heroin.
Narcan can be used with any drug with opioids and gives emergency responders time to revive victims.
The Asbury Park Pressreports Emergency Training and Consulting medical director Dr. Kenneth Lavelle told police chiefs on Tuesday the nasal inhalant form of the drug costs about $25 and it should take about 90 days to train all officers.
Lavelle says officers would administer it just like a nasal spray.
There have been 102 deaths associated with drug overdoses in the county this year.
This is just what we need, a bunch of cops playing dr. I guess that this is why we are guarding all of those poppy feilds. Create a problem, create a job.
This drug will remove the need for police to use a 50,000 volt Taser to restart your heart. To protect and serve… sure. Heroin on the streets today is less than half the price it was in the 1970s, and most is uncut (pure) because Afghanistan production has flooded the market with a drug that is far cheaper than cocaine or pot. I suspect that the Ocean County NJ undercover narcs needed this drug for when/if they overdose.
LOL and ya know what Inretrospect, they busted 1st and second graders in my area with $20.00 heroin balloons – ounces all weighed out in $20.00 balloons ready for sale to sell to people and these were just 1st and 2nd graders with the stuff in their lockers in grade school ready for sale… Nothing like the “Mayberry” small town america is there.
1st and 2nd graders? I didn’t realize that heroin suppliers are using distributors that young. The suppliers usually liked using elderly people to traffic drugs because they looked unsuspecting, and generally used teens before the age of 16-years because they wouldn’t be tried as an adult.
There was a young man that I worked with that recently died of a heroin overdose because it was evidently far stronger than anything he had injected before. His buddies were probably too afraid to call 911, so they just abandoned him after they determined he was dead. As I stated previously: young people would be smoking pot as an alternative if they could afford to buy it or, if they would risk the extreme penalty for growing their own stash (my opinion).
The statistics of opiate overdosing had always been greater with users of legal pharmaceutical drugs than with illegal street drugs. However, the recent glut of high grade heroin on the streets being distributed by toddlers will certainly change that statistic… it probably already has!
It’s also an absurd notion to presume that any cops who beat and taser unarmed people to death will do the humanitarian act of saving a junkie from an overdose.