Grant County Deputies waste no time saving lives with opioid overdose antidote

It didn’t take long for the Grant County Sheriff’s office to make good use of the recently-issued Noloxone kits.

A Grant County Sheriff’s Deputy was able to save an overdose victim Thursday, less than one week after being trained and issued the anti-opioid Naloxone.

Around 2 p.m. a deputy arrived to the 9000 block of Bong Loop Northeast in Moses Lake and found a man in his 40s who fell unconscious with slowed breathing.

After determining there was clear evidence of an overdose, the deputy gave the man one dose of Naloxone. Within a minute the man’s condition improved. A second dose administered later by paramedics improved the man’s condition even more.

Earlier this month, deputies were trained in the use of Naloxone and issued kits containing the drug, which helps reverse the life-threatening effects of opioid overdoses