Crime & Safety
Prosecutor Using Social Media To Highlight Heroin Epidemic In Bergen County
Office using the hashtag #StopTheODs to bring attention to the increasing epidemic and the lives authorities save.
The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office has launched a new social media campaign designed to highlight the scope of the heroin epidemic plaguing Bergen County.
The office will use the hashtag #StopTheODs on its Twitter account — @BCPONJ to bring attention to periodic updates regarding fatal drug overdoses in the county and information about the lives saved through the use of Narcan, a drug designed to reverse heroin and other opiate overdoses.
Posts will include maps of where the most recent Narcan saves, or fatal overdose, and a running tally of such incidents.
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The most recent update, which was posted Wednesday, stated that the Hasbrouck Heights Police Department saved a woman's life using Narcan recently. It was the 156th Narcan save by police in the county this year.
Hasbrouck Heights PD @hashtspd deployed Narcan & revived 34-year-old female overdose victim. 156th Narcan save by police YTD. #StopTheODs pic.twitter.com/x1aXlmOGjN
— B.C. Prosecutor (@BCPONJ) November 2, 2016
The prosecutor's office will also use the hashtag in posts designed to educate the public, especially children, about the various pathways to, and the perils of, heroin and opioid addiction.
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