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NYPD Officers Save Forest Hills Woman From Heroin Overdose, Officials Say

By Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska | January 19, 2017 5:15pm
 Police officers saved a Forest Hills woman who they said overdosed on heroin Monday, by using Narcan.
Police officers saved a Forest Hills woman who they said overdosed on heroin Monday, by using Narcan.
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QUEENS — Police officers saved a Forest Hills woman who they said overdosed on heroin Monday by using Narcan, an opioid antidote administered as a nasal spray.

The woman was found unresponsive on Austin Street and 67th Road around noon, according to Capt. Robert Ramos, commanding officer of the 112th Precinct, who discussed the incident at a community council meeting Wednesday night.

When responding officers realized that it was a heroin overdose, Sgt. Joseph Gergenti, who also arrived at the scene, administered a dose of Narcan, which can instantly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, police officials said.

“She came back immediately,” Ramos said. “Had he not done that, I’m not too sure what the results would have been. Looks like he saved this woman’s life.”

Ramos also said that there is no drug problem in the 112th Precinct.

“It’s very unusual here,” he said about the incident.

Thousands of NYPD officers have been equipped with Narcan in 2014, as part of the Community Overdose Prevention Program