A man’s life was saved after he suffered an opioid overdose and was administered multiple doses of naloxone by community members and VicPD in the early hours today.
At approximately 3 a.m. on Thursday, August 5th, officers were flagged down in the 900-block of Pandora Avenue for reports of a man suffering from an opioid overdose.
Officers located the man where community members had already begun to administer naloxone.
Despite this, the man remained unconscious, without a pulse, and not breathing.
Officers then provided the man with several additional doses of naloxone; they also inserted an airway, and provided rescue breathing for more than fifteen minutes until paramedics arrived.
Eventually, the man began to breathe and regained consciousness.
The man refused medical treatment and declined to attend hospital.
