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Cops use Narcan to save brothers suffering overdose at Wendy’s

Twins Touch Death –

Oct 25, 2019 – Smyrna police spokesman Sgt. Louis Defense said one of the men was found in the restroom and the other was in the lobby. One of the brothers was not breathing while the other had shallow breaths, he added. The officers, Esther Ruiz, Taylor Elliot, Robert Pfeiffer and Jake Prough, used their department-issued Narcan, an antidote used to temporarily reverse an overdose from opioids, to revive both men. 

“The Smyrna Police Department believes had the officers not had the training or the Narcan packs available to them, the two subjects would have surely died,” the department said.

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