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Medics revive heroin overdose victim with Narcan

Responders administered Narcan to a 24-year-old blue-lipped, unresponsive woman en route to an Ohio hospital

Mansfield News Journal

MANSFIELD, Ohio — Mansfield firefighters used Narcan to revive a woman who overdosed on heroin Thursday afternoon.

Dispatchers initially sent police and rescue squad to the 100 block of Harker Street shortly after 2:30 p.m., on a report of a man down.

Mansfield firefighters found a 24-year-old woman who was unresponsive, with her lips turning blue. Rescue squad personnel used Narcan (Naloxone) to revive the woman while enroute to MedCentral/Mansfield Hospital.

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