Crime & Safety
Deputy Saves Man From Heroin Overdose near Lake Bluff
Use of naloxone is one of first for department since attaining the drug last fall.
A Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy saved a 27-year-old heroin-overdose victim’s life in unincorporated Lake Bluff last week.
Using the department’s newly attained naloxone auto-injector to offset heroin overdoses, Depuy Michael Platt was able to revive the unresponsive man in the 13600 block of Rockland Road.
“Naloxone auto-injectors are stuck into the thigh of an overdose victim to deliver a counteracting agent,” according to the Lake County News-Sun.
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It was the second life rescue associated with the Lake County Sheriff’s Department that week, as two deputies revived an unresponsive man behind the counter of a gas station in Antioch in an apparent incident that did not involve drugs.
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