Sheriff's deputy saves Lake County's 12th overdose victim

The Lake County sheriff on Wednesday celebrated another case of a deputy using the overdose reversal drug Naloxone to save a life, but he also expressed concern about the “larger problem” of heroin use in the region.

The sheriff's office said deputies were dispatched at about 12:49 a.m. Wednesday to a home on the 900 block of Route 60 in Volo, where a man had overdosed after reportedly using heroin late Tuesday.

The victim's mother had attempted, without success, to administer a dose of Naloxone she had obtained from an anti-drug organization because her son is a drug addict.

Deputy Alex Dador then administered a dose of department-issued Naloxone. Within 15 seconds the man regained consciousness and began speaking, sheriff's police said.

The Naloxone injection Dador administered resulted in the fourth save by the Lake County sheriff's office and the 12th save by Lake County law enforcement since the formation of the Lake County Opioid Initiative.

“In less than 5 months, 12 overdose victims were brought back to life,” Sheriff Mark Curran said. “That's a better statistic than 12 heroin deaths in 5 months. But it underscores a larger problem — heroin is on the rise and as a community we need to do more.”