Police Revive Overdose Victim In Greenwich: PD

GREENWICH, CT — Officers were able to revive a man suffering from a drug overdose in the Byram area of town Sunday evening, police said. Officers responded to Talbot Lane around 5:30 p.m. after a resident reported seeing a man unconscious in a vehicle.

Police Lt. John Slusarz said officers gave Narcan to the man and performed CPR, which brought him back to consciousness. The man was described by police as a Connecticut resident in his mid-20's.

Slusarz said this was not the first person police have saved using Narcan in the past couple of years.

"That's why we're carrying it now," Slusarz said, referring to the fact that officers started carrying Narcan on them last year.

The department also has a partnership with Greenwich Hospital and drug rehabilitation services, through which they are able to get drug-users the help they need and point them in the direction of facilities that can help them.

"We go after the drug dealers and the supplier," Slusarz said, "but we try to get the users the help that they need."