Good Story out of 71st Precinct w/Beautiful Wintery Pic!

story via NYPD Facebook Page _ https://www.facebook.com/NYPD

Brooklyn Cops Save Unconscious Man


Police Officers Peterford and Pascale, assigned to Brooklyn’s 71
Precinct, saved a 24-year-old man who had lost consciousness from an
apparent drug overdose. The two officers responded to a 911 and upon
arrival found the man unconscious and not responsive.

Police Officers Peterford and Pascale immediately began to perform CPR to try to revive the man. Noticing
the man was not regaining consciousness, Police Officer Peterford
administered a dose of Naloxone, which is issued to officers by the
NYPD, and the man was revived and stabilized.

Read more about the officers visiting the man they helped to save: http://www.nypdnews.com/2015/01/brooklyn-cops-save-unconscious-man.html

Indeed.

And I might use this thread to document the increasing use of heroin that I am perceiving among those between 20 - 35 in Crown Heights.

Heroin amongst the 20-35 set? Do tell. What are your perceptions?

It is pretty well documented that heroin use has recently received a "bump" as result of new, effective enforcement of prescription drugs like oxy.

Unable to get oxy, they turn to snorting heroin, then injecting or smoking it.

The users that followed this path tend to grow up in the suburbs, and then move to urban areas for a variety of reasons: Heroin is cheaper and supply more reliable. Potential dates are better looking. Jobs. Transit. Yada yada.

They are often white, and high school graduates.

Many are still on their parents' health insurance policies....

I've worked with a number of clients who initially got hooked on prescription pills like Oxy, and then when they couldn't obtain those scripts anymore they resorted to using heroin.  Prescription opiate based drugs are no joke, and unfortunately people don't realize this because the fact that they're legal gives the illusion of safety.

They are "safe" in that they are overseen by the FDA and you get a known, reliable dosage.

...but still very addictive.

In March, written scripts for pain killers will be gone completely: https://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/narcotic/electronic_prescribing/

Heroin remains as available (if not more so) than ever.

I guess the NYPD needs all the good news it can get these days. 

The NYPD's naloxone program certainly stretches the traditional role of the police.

....but it does fit into their experience, and that of most police departments around the country.

Their mantra is "we spend 95% of our time with 5% of the population", and persons with drug addictions are certainly part of that 5%.

Here's how they spend their time:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/2013_year_end_enforcement_report.pdf

Despite having them administer Naloxone, I don't see their larger jobs changing anytime soon.

It is official: NYC now has more deaths from heroin (opiate) overdoses than it does homicide. Heroin deaths are increasing, while homicides are decreasing.

This is somewhat unique; Usually the two act in tandem.

http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/heroin-making-comeback-nyc-overdoses-outnumber-homicides-article-1.2173981