By Scott Waldman
Times Union
TROY, N.Y. — A man being treated for a heroin overdose allegedly assaulted the paramedic trying to save him with a used needle, city police said.
At 2:50 p.m. Thursday, Troy police and firefighters responded to a call of an unresponsive man in the Hannaford parking lot on 126th St. They discovered Joel Burgess of Mechanicville, who was unresponsive and was loaded into an ambulance, Troy Capt. Dan DeWolf said.
Burgess was in the back of an ambulance heading to a Troy hospital when he was given a drug to help save his life from the overdose.
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