“A car pulled in the driver flagged down the sergeant and said ‘help me, my friends dying’.” This was the scene Friday at the patrol west police substation in Wichita. Wichita Police Captain, Travis Rakestraw says a Sargent with the department immediately ran over to the car. He determined that the passenger was overdosing on a fake painkiller, potentially laced with Fentanyl. Rakestraw says that sergeant proceeded to use Narcan on the 20-year-old. “He applied two doses to this individual who within a very short amount of time started to come out of it became responsive and breathing better.” This moment was payoff for new policy WPD put into place last month, supplying some of its patrol officers and supervisors with Narcan.
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