Heroin(e)

214 00:12:26,454 --> 00:12:28,914 Being an addict, it's hard. 215 00:12:28,998 --> 00:12:32,084 Because you can't just do it once and stop. 216 00:12:32,168 --> 00:12:35,463 You have to keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. 217 00:12:35,546 --> 00:12:37,465 She was clean seven months. 218 00:12:37,548 --> 00:12:40,843 She just relapsed, what, uh, three weeks ago? 219 00:12:42,219 --> 00:12:43,387 Something like that? 220 00:12:43,471 --> 00:12:45,973 - So we can do this! -Yes! Seven months. 221 00:12:46,056 --> 00:12:48,893 -Yes! You got it! You can do it again! -Seven months under her belt. 222 00:12:48,976 --> 00:12:51,479 All you got to do is worry about right now. 223 00:12:52,188 --> 00:12:54,523 Okay? Then we worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. 224 00:12:54,607 --> 00:12:58,277 - Okay. -All right, sassy pants, go on! 225 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,906 You got people waiting on you. I love you. I'll talk to you tomorrow. 226 00:13:04,450 --> 00:13:07,453 Hope is the girl that is... I mean, she'll tell me anything. 227 00:13:07,536 --> 00:13:09,038 And she tells me more than I want to know. 228 00:13:09,121 --> 00:13:10,456 She's the first girl we got off the streets. 229 00:13:10,539 --> 00:13:12,208 I was asking her one time, I said, 230 00:13:12,291 --> 00:13:15,669 "So what is so powerful about this heroin?" 231 00:13:16,295 --> 00:13:21,425 And she said, "The only way I know to explain it to you is 232 00:13:21,509 --> 00:13:25,429 getting high on heroin is what it would be like for you to kiss Jesus." 233 00:13:25,513 --> 00:13:27,723 She said, "That's how powerful it is." 234 00:13:28,807 --> 00:13:32,186 And I was like, "Well, that's probably pretty daggone powerful." 235 00:13:52,081 --> 00:13:56,377 <i>When you take an opiate, it attaches</i> <i>to certain receptors in the brain</i> 236 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:58,879 <i>and it basically suppresses</i> <i>your respiratory system</i> 237 00:13:58,963 --> 00:14:00,506 <i>and you stop breathing.</i> 238 00:14:00,589 --> 00:14:05,094 <i>Naloxone actually knocks the opiate</i> <i>off that receptor</i> 239 00:14:05,177 --> 00:14:08,681 <i>so they start breathing again.</i> <i>They wake up immediately.</i> 240 00:14:11,141 --> 00:14:13,060 You are the bomb-diggity. 241 00:14:13,143 --> 00:14:14,436 I know it. 242 00:14:15,729 --> 00:14:17,648 -You're gonna save lives. You know that? -Yeah. 243 00:14:18,983 --> 00:14:22,486 <i>It's a moral obligation to me.</i> <i>I'm an old medic. I'm a nurse.</i> 244 00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:25,155 <i>I'm a firefighter.</i> <i>I'm built to help people.</i> 245 00:14:34,206 --> 00:14:36,500 <i>First responders, in general,</i> 246 00:14:36,584 --> 00:14:40,170 <i>don't treat those suffering</i> <i>from addiction well.</i> 247 00:14:40,254 --> 00:14:41,505 <i>They haven't in the past</i> 248 00:14:41,589 --> 00:14:43,674 <i>and we're trying to change that</i> <i>here in Huntington.</i> 249 00:14:43,757 --> 00:14:46,760 Well, look-it there. There's my Prince Charming. 250 00:14:46,844 --> 00:14:50,014 Here is our naloxone policy. It's the city policy, 251 00:14:50,097 --> 00:14:52,391 so use your best judgment whether you need to use it 252 00:14:52,474 --> 00:14:55,227 or wait for EMS and just bag. 253 00:14:55,311 --> 00:15:00,274 And that's how a policy is written. It says you can. Um, so... 254 00:15:01,483 --> 00:15:06,030 So we are under no obligation or requirement to administer it? 255 00:15:06,113 --> 00:15:10,701 You are not. You are under obligation to provide BLS, 256 00:15:10,784 --> 00:15:14,622 which is basic life support, which is providing rescue breaths. 257 00:15:14,705 --> 00:15:17,583 If you get notification that EMS is going to be a while, 258 00:15:17,666 --> 00:15:19,376 I'd go ahead and use it. Yeah, so... 259 00:15:19,460 --> 00:15:22,087 -There's days when they're all tied up. -There's no contraindications of it? 260 00:15:22,171 --> 00:15:23,547 There's no contraindication. 261 00:15:23,631 --> 00:15:25,215 -But we're not required to administer it? -Right. 262 00:15:25,299 --> 00:15:29,470 One box per truck. There's two doses in there. 263 00:15:29,553 --> 00:15:32,431 -So you're the naloxone dealer? - I am. 264 00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:39,355 Number three goes on Engine Two. 265 00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:42,149 And number four goes... just put it in the medic bag. 266 00:15:42,232 --> 00:15:43,943 -Okay. - Okay. 267 00:15:44,026 --> 00:15:45,527 There's plenty. The health department has plenty. 268 00:15:45,611 --> 00:15:49,615 So, you know, if you want to use it, feel free to go ahead. 269 00:15:49,698 --> 00:15:51,742 -Two boxes of naloxone. 270 00:15:51,825 --> 00:15:55,329 New naloxone protocol. 271 00:15:55,913 --> 00:15:59,208 Anytime you have a save, let me know immediately.