Staten Island cops save dying woman with shot of Naloxone [View all]

[MineralMan]

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/theshack/spray-saviors-staten-island-cops-save-dying-woman-shot-naloxone-blog-entry-1.1839304

Two Staten Island cops armed with a Naloxone sprayer gave a young woman a new lease on life after providing her with the heroin overdose antidote, authorities said Saturday.

NYPD 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.