We’re dispatched to an overdose on Ashley Street. I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. We’re driving around looking for the victim. I don’t see anyone on two passes, but then I hear the BLS unit radio they’ve found him. I swing around to where they are now…
The woman watched the man’s head fall back and his mouth open, but he didn’t slip from his seat on the city bus. He began to snore, but it was irregular and somewhat gasping, then he was quiet. “I wish I could sleep like that,” the man sitting across from her said. She wasn’t the…
I am a member of Connecticut’s Overdose Fatality Review Panel. We meet on a regular basis to review selected cases of people who have died of overdose. We receive a file on each person that includes their age, gender and race, death location details and circumstances of their death, the autopsy and toxicology findings, their…
Thanks to everyone who has reached out to wonder if I am okay since I last posted 4 months ago. Yes, I am doing well. I have been very busy working on a new book, as well as with work, both as an EMS Coordinator and a road paramedic. I still hit the streets once…