Franklin Police Use Narcan to Save Woman's Life

Franklin Township, NJ - Monday, around 1:15 p.m. The 23-year-old North Brunswick woman had overdosed in a grocery store on Rt. 27 in Franklin Township.

Police responded and found the woman in the store’s bathroom, unconscious and unresponsive.

The officer suspected she might have overdosed on narcotics, and quickly administered Narcan, which saved her life, reports TAP Into.

Within minutes, the woman was awake and alert. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Narcan is given either by an injection into the arm, thigh or buttocks, or via a nasal spray. The drug can revive an unconscious person within 5 minutes, and often much quicker than that. Narcan works by knocking out of the opiate receptors in the brain. Opiates such as heroin, and painkillers like morphine, codeine, oxycodone, methadone and vicodin can cause someone’s breathing to dramatically slow down, or even stop. It can be impossible to “wake” someone who has fallen into this state. And even just one minute of lost oxygen can mean devastating and irreversible brain damage.

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