Plymouth Ambulance, Norristown Fire Department partner to provide Narcan to overdose victims
By Oscar Gamble, The Times Herald
NORRISTOWN >> The Norristown Fire Department is now the first municipal fire department in Montgomery County to carry the anti-opioid drug Narcan.
In 2015, the most current year for which statistics were tabulated, there were 3,383 opioid overdose related deaths in Pennsylvania, with 136 of them occurring in Montgomery County, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency’s annual Intelligence Report.