At the Middletown, Ohio, fire department, calls for actual fires are rare. These days the station responds to more calls for drug overdoses - four to five a day on average. Firefighter Bryan Oliver goes on a lot of these runs. Oliver and his team administer Naloxone and then perform CPR.
At the Middletown, Ohio, fire department, calls for actual fires are rare. These days the station responds to more calls for drug overdoses — four to five a day on average.
Firefighter Bryan Oliver goes on a lot of these runs. Oliver and his team administer Naloxone and then perform CPR. He says they may treat the same patient for multiple overdoses, sometimes in the same day.
"Anybody you talk to who does this job will tell you it's frustrating and you put that to the side because you have a job to do," he says.