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Body Camera Shows Overdosing Cop Being Revived With Narcan During Drug Bust

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Body camera footage from police in Columbus, Ohio, has emerged showing an officer being revived with the overdose reversal drug Narcan at the scene of a drug bust after suspected fentanyl exposure.

The footage, which emerged Thursday on LiveLeak, shows an officer with the Columbus Division of Police suffering a drug overdose in his vehicle. His partner is seen questioning a women in cuffs in the back of a police cruiser about what substance she had in her car, which she said did not contain any fentanyl to her knowledge.

The officer responds, “Okay, well we have an officer having an effect right now.” The woman then tells the officer that her dealer claimed it was a combination of meth and ice.

After injecting the officer with a dose of the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan in both nostrils, police helped him out of his cruiser to rest on the ground as he recovered.

The Ohio Department of Health recently asked medical professionals and first responders to start using the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan for any situation where a person has overdosed on drugs in case fentanyl is involved.

Opioids are killing a record number of people in Ohio, which now has the second highest death rate from drug overdoses in the U.S. behind only West Virginia.

The state lost 4,329 residents to drug overdoses in 2016, a 24 percent increase over 2015, due to a massive influx of fentanyl. Nearly 40 per 100,000 people now die from drug-related overdoses in Ohio.

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death for Americans under age 50, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, claiming more than 64,000 lives in 2016.