East Windsor Police Revive Heroin Overdose Victim

EAST WINDSOR, CT — For the fifth time, a member of the East Windsor Police Department successfully utilized Narcan to revive a heroin overdose victim Monday night.

Around 7 p.m., officers responded to a residence on Scantic Road for a reported heroin overdose, and found an unresponsive male on the kitchen floor. The male had labored breathing and his face and hands had turned blue, indicating a lack of oxygen in the body, due to respiratory depression from opioids, police said.

An officer provided two doses of Narcan, a medicine that blocks the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose, to the male through his nostrils, and he regained consciousness before being transported to a local hospital, police said.

East Windsor officers have been carrying Narcan since 2014 after being trained by the East Windsor Ambulance Association, and have executed five successful administrations to date.

Photo courtesy of East Windsor Police Department