Recovering Addict Thanks EMS Crews Who Saved His Life

Washington Twp., Ohio - While the Miami Valley — and the country as a whole — continues to deal with its heroin epidemic, one man took time today to say thanks to those he credit with saving his life from the deadly drug. Recovering heroin addict Mark Bracken of Dayton thanked Washington Twp. EMS crews today for using Narcan to save him from a potentially fatal overdose. Narcan is a medication that reverses an overdose caused by an opiod drug such as heroin or prescription pain drugs. Bracken said he awoke last July to several EMS members “hovering” over him after having been administered Narcan. All he could remember before that moment was someone bringing the drugs to his job, going to the bathroom and using. “I was at work, that’s just a terrible feeling,” he said. Ten months removed from near death, Bracken said it was time to thank the people who saved his life. “These men and women coming out here every day trying to deal with people overdosing…I feel like I may be forced to give up and they didn’t,” he said. “I feel like they cared.”  
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