Narcan Saves Fairfield OD Victim

(Fairfield, Conn./CBS Connecticut) - Fairfield is the latest town to report the use of a drug to aid in an overdose incident.

Fire department officials say on Monday, they received the call to a home not far from Fire Station 2 on Jennings Road in town.

Inside the home, a resident said the victim had taken heroin.

First responders used the drug Narcan after they found the patient with a weak pulse and not breathing on their own.

Narcan had been distributed throughout the department shortly after its usage by police and first responders for overdose victims was passed by the state legislature in May.

The patient subsequently began breathing on their own.

Officials in the chief state medical examiner’s office say the first six months of this year, there were 151 opioid-related deaths in the state.

The number is a significant increase over the 92 who died of accidental overdoses during the same period a year ago.