The officer administered Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, to the unconscious woman.
The officer found the woman unconscious and unresponsive in the bathroom of a Route 27 grocery store. (File photo) FRANKLIN -- A township patrolman revived an unconscious North Brunswick woman suffering from an apparent drug overdose by administering Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, township police spokesman Sgt. Phil Rizzo said Tuesday.
On Monday at 1:15 p.m., police received a 911 call reporting an unconscious woman was in the bathroom of a grocery store on Route 27, police said. Patrolman Greg Wilson of the Franklin Township Police Department's Emergency Services Unit found the 23-year-old unconscious and unresponsive, police said.
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Wilson immediately recognized the woman's condition as a possible opiate overdose and administered Naloxone, police said. When paramedics and EMS personnel from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick arrived on scene, the woman was awake, alert and oriented, police said.
She was transported to a local area hospital for treatment, police said.
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