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Paramedic Describes Giving 8-10 Milligrams of Narcan During Opioid Crisis Peak
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"We were giving them 8-10 milligrams of Narcan. And I mean, I mean, it had to be fentanyl. It, dude, I've never seen anything like this. You normally give somebody 0.5, fine, they wake up screaming."
During Florida's pill highway epidemic, Patton witnessed unprecedented opioid overdoses requiring 16-20 times the normal Narcan dose to revive patients. He described responding to double overdoses where victims required massive doses of naloxone, likely indicating early fentanyl contamination of the drug supply.
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