BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.––The county prosecutor’s office reported that local police recently responded to two heroin overdoses.
The prosecutor’s office routinely posts overdose incidents on its social media, cataloging them using the hashtag “StopTheODs.”
It said Demarest Police deployed Narcan on Aug. 23 and revived a 29-year-old male overdose victim.
On Aug. 19, it said Old Tappan Police saved a 21-year-old female using Narcan. That same day, police in East Rutherford revived a 23-year-old male using Narcan, a drug considered to be an antidote to opioid overdose.
Bergen County police have successfully deployed Narcan 152 times in 2017.
The most recent fatality from opioid overdose, which has surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of accidental deaths in New Jersey, was on Aug. 22.
A 41-year-old man in Lyndhurst died of a suspected drug overdose, the 65th person to fatally overdose in Bergen County so far this year.
In July, The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office released an update to the year-end report on heroin and opioid overdose statistics in the county, as part of a prolonged effort to document and map out the impact that opioids have on Bergen County residents, as well as to provide a map of overdose rescues made by local law enforcement officers.