Emergency personnel handle four NL overdose calls in five days

New London — Fire and police personnel responded to four reported overdoses from Friday through Tuesday, including three during which responders administered Narcan and two that occurred in or near public places.

Two of the calls came Friday, according to fire officials. The first of those occurred at 4:22 p.m. at 64 Hawthorne Drive and involved a 26-year-old woman who was unconscious in a vehicle. In part because a bystander said the woman had used heroin, crews administered Narcan. The woman regained consciousness.

The second call, reported as a heroin overdose, came in from St. Mary Star of the Sea Church at 10 Huntington St. about 8:30 p.m. By the time emergency personnel arrived, fire officials said, the 51-year-old man was conscious. It wasn’t clear whether he indeed overdosed, but he agreed to go to the hospital.

On Monday, crews administered Narcan after finding a roughly 30-year-old man unresponsive and struggling to breathe in the roadway near Mr. G’s Restaurant, 452 Williams St. The man regained consciousness after receiving Narcan. That call also came in about 8:30 p.m.

Just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, emergency responders went to 72 Montauk Ave., where they administered Narcan to a 27-yearold woman who was lying on the ground toward the rear of the building. She, too, regained consciousness.

According to The Day’s analysis of data from the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New London had one of the highest rates of fatal overdoses in the state last year. Many who died in the city, however, were not from there.