The Opioid Epidemic: The Impact to First Responders
8 min readSep 23, 2019
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(Warning: Below is a description of the opioid crisis that some people might find triggering and traumatizing.)
I waited for the police and the fire department to come to my location. There was a report of a dead body, another casualty of the opioid pandemic. It was a person that I had worked with, and…