Trumbull Rocked By Overdose Death, Emergency Workers Say

TRUMBULL, Conn. -- In the wake of a recent overdose death in Trumbull, local officials have released a statement on the heroin scourge that is rocking local communities all over New England, according to a report in The Trumbull Times.

Trumbull police and emergency officials are talking about the opiate scourge after a Stratford man died of an apparent overdose last week. Shown, heroin that was seized in a traffic stop by the Fairfield Police Department in a different case.
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Carol Reif

01/13/2016 4:00 a.m.

A 24-year-old Stratford man died of an apparent heroin overdose on Wednesday, Jan. 6, after being found unconscious in the bathroom of a Starbucks in Trumbull.

Opiate use is happening at an unprecedented rate, police told the Trumbull Times.

Trumbull police and emergency officials said in the statement that the incident in Starbucks was the first time they had been unable to revive an overdose victim with Narcon since being trained to use the drug, which reverses the effects of opiates, the Trumbull Times story said.

To read The Trumbull Times story, click here.

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