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http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/theshack/spray-saviors-staten-island-cops-save-dying-woman-shot-naloxone-blog-entry-1.1839304NYPD Sgt. Magliente and Police Officer Tucker of the 121st Precinct were on patrol at about 1 a.m. Friday when they received a 911 call to the New Dakota Diner on Richmond Ave. in Graniteville.
Once they arrived, witnesses rushed them to the ladies room, where a 25-year-old woman was found barely breathing with a hyperdermic needle sticking out of her arm.
Realizing that the woman was suffering a heroin overdose, the officers administered Naloxone, which reverses a heroin or opioid overdose and allows the victim to breathe again. Paramedics rushed the woman to Richmond University Medical Center, where she is expected to survive.
dilby
(2,273 posts)MineralMan
(146,116 posts)It was about them saving her life, instead.
dilby
(2,273 posts)It's part of a no questions asked system we have to help prevent death by OD, a lot of people don't get high by themselves and this encourages other users to call if one of them is ODing and no one gets in trouble. But it does require the person who OD'd to go to the hospital.
MineralMan
(146,116 posts)I don't know the laws in New York. One thing's sure, though: the person is alive due to this naloxone program. I say Bravo!
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)So yes, it works, as activists tried to tell authorities for years. Being NY, they probably arrested her after.
MineralMan
(146,116 posts)As for her being arrested, I have no information at all about that. She's alive, though. That's a plus, by my count.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Police groups were opposed to this as they are to needle exchange or any other form of reform or harm reduction, pretending otherwise is a dangerous game.
MineralMan
(146,116 posts)That's a good thing, Bluenorthwest. A good thing.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)its a very sad mentality.
harm reduction saves lives.
get the red out
(13,456 posts)is something that can really help individuals and society as a whole. I hope the hateful groups don't stop the idea from spreading.
get the red out
(13,456 posts)I am so glad that this drug exists and that there are people in law enforcement who believe people's lives are worth saving, whether they are addicted to a substance or not. There are people who believe addicts should simply suffer their deaths as a consequence of their actions, but I don't know how they expect to teach a lesson to a dead person.
MineralMan
(146,116 posts)the hands of first responders, but I'm sure glad it was available to this woman.