Crime & Safety
Fair Lawn Police Use Narcan To Save Overdose Victim: Prosecutor
The man is the 162nd person law enforcement have administered the life-saving drug to this year in Bergen County, authorities said.
FAIR LAWN, N.J. — Police used Narcan to save a man who was overdosing in the borough recently.
It was the 162nd overdose victim Bergen County law enforcement saved this year using Narcan, a drug designed to reverse heroin and other opiate overdoses.
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The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office released the information Monday afternoon as part of its #StopTheODs Twitter campaign. Posts include maps of where the most recent Narcan saves, or fatal overdose, have been and a running tally of such incidents.
@FairLawnPD deployed Narcan & revived a 39-year-old male overdose victim. 162nd Narcan save by Bergen law enforcement this year. #StopTheODs pic.twitter.com/8fla2gfGPm
— B.C. Prosecutor (@BCPONJ) November 21, 2016
There have been 73 heroin and opiate-related overdose deaths in Bergen County this year, the prosecutor's office said.
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