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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A teenager's beingness was saved aft deputies administered Narcan to reverse an overdose; aft waking her, deputies accidental they arrested a antheral for rape.
Deputies accidental they were dispatched to a Madera County location connected Tuesday for a imaginable overdose involving a teenage girl.
Upon arrival, deputies accidental the miss was unresponsive, but aft administering Narcan, she regained consciousness and was transported to a section infirmary for treatment.
The sheriff's bureau says 20-year-old Ahwahnee nonmigratory Seth Prince was besides astatine the home. He allegedly became combative with detectives and was arrested connected suspicion of aggregate felony charges, including unlawful intersexual intercourse with a minor, and aggregate counts of resisting an enforcement officer.
While investigating, detectives accidental they recovered what appeared to beryllium Xanax pills adjacent the girl. They accidental that erstwhile bought connected the street, these pills are often counterfeit and incorporate fentanyl, making them precise unsafe and sometimes fatal to those who ingest them.
"As parents, we can’t spend to presume our kids are immune to the dangers retired there. One mediocre choice—just 1 counterfeit oregon non-prescription pill—can instrumentality a young beingness successful seconds. That’s wherefore each genitor needs to person a existent speech with their teen astir the risks of fentanyl and what an overdose looks like," Sheriff Tyson Pogue said. "They besides request to cognize however to respond if a person is successful trouble. Narcan is safe, casual to use, and it saves lives. Keep it successful your home, your car, oregon your purse—because it whitethorn not conscionable beryllium your kid who needs it. It could beryllium the quality betwixt beingness and death.”
Local pharmacies, cause stores, convenience stores, and online stores each person Narcan readily disposable to the nationalist without a prescription. However, that could soon change, arsenic the opioid-overdose remedy faces $56 cardinal successful cuts nether the Trump administration.
Detectives accidental they are actively investigating the lawsuit to find who provided the pills to the girl. Anyone with accusation regarding this case, oregon fentanyl pills and cause income successful general, is asked to interaction the MADNET extremity enactment astatine 559-675-7776. Callers tin stay anonymous.
