FIRE ENGINEERING: As Boston celebrated its World Series victory last fall with a grand parade through downtown, a distraught young man burst through the crowd in search of police. But he didn’t want Boston police. He wanted an officer from Quincy, a Boston suburb.
The man’s girlfriend had overdosed on heroin. He had heard Quincy police carry naloxone, a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose instantly. Quincy officers, helping with security at the parade, administered the drug, reversed the overdose and saved the 20-year-old woman.
Since Quincy officers began carrying a nasal form of the drug, known commonly by its trade name, Narcan, in October 2010, they have administered the drug 221 times and reversed 211 overdoses, said Lt. Detective Patrick Glynn, commander of the narcotics unit and special investigations at the Quincy Police Department… (more)
