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07-24-2013, 06:50 PM
Author: Doug Wyllie, PoliceOne Editor in Chief
By PoliceOne Staff QUINCY, Mass. — The Quincy police have become the first department in the country to require their officers to carry an opiate overdose-preventing nasal spray with them on duty. Officer Ryan Donnelly has reversed eight overdoses before paramedics arrived using Narcan, or naloxone hydrochloride, since the start of the program, according to CBS. Narcan reverses an overdose by ...

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