OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Opioid overdoses continue to make their way in the headlines as the Oklahoma County Sheriff's office says overdoses continue to climb.
Dramatic body camera video shows the moment a deputy saved a woman from an apparent opioid overdose.
They warn any drug can take your life as more and more are being mixed with fentanyl.
If it wasn't for a call to 911 Monday morning, deputies say another life would have been lost.
When deputies found her, she was lying on the floor of her kitchen.
"She was unconscious, labored breathing, really struggling, very low heartbeat," Aaron Brilbeck with the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office said. "When they applied the Narcan to her, they gave her two shots of the Narcan and it brought her back within just a few minutes."
While the life-saving medication was administered, investigators questioned a man inside the home.
"Clearly she was on some type of drugs and this clearly saved her life," Brilbeck said.
Deputies tell us they are seeing this happen more and more.
"There's no safe amount of street drugs that you can do because of drugs like fentanyl," Brilbeck said. "It is poison, people are dying."
He adds, deputies are doing everything they can to get these drugs off the streets, but everyone can play a role in saving lives.
"Anyone can learn how to use Narcan," Brilbeck said, "Basically it's a spray. You put it up the person's nose, and if the person is overdosing, it instantly takes care of the problem. And again, you can't overdose somebody on Narcan. I can't give you too much Narcan. If I give you Narcan, it's not going to harm you. But the answer is you got to get off these drugs."
Brilbeck says there is no rule of thumb on how much time you have after an overdose to administer Narcan, but the sooner you can the better.
