Delta police have issued a public safety advisory after officers and paramedics attended four drug overdoses in North Delta early Thursday morning.
According to DPD, in the first instance three individuals were believed to have consumed what witnesses described as cocaine.
“They were not breathing when emergency crews arrived and had to be resuscitated with multiple vials of Nalaxone,” said DPD in a release on their Facebook page. “In the second instance the individual was again in respiratory arrest and had to be revived with Nalaxone. It is unknown what drug that person apparently took. All four individuals were taken to hospital.”
Health providers counsel drug users not to use alone, or if using alone to have a plan to have someone check on you. If someone ODs, call 9-1-1 immediately, open the airway and give breaths and give Naloxone (Narcan) if you have it.
The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act protects people who witness an overdose and call 9-1-1 for help. The Act can protect you from charges for possession of a controlled substance (drugs), and breach of conditions regarding simple possession.
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Information on how to respond to an overdose can be found at http://bit.ly/2L2p6vR.
