“Every firefighter carries Narcan these days. More often than not, we’re the first ones to respond to medical emergencies, so I see a lot of junkies. Last one was twenty-four years old. Good kid. Injured his knee playing football first year of college. Coach got the doctor to give him Oxy. Told him it was totally safe. When the season ended, he couldn’t stop taking it. And when the prescription ran out, he turned to heroin. He died, in case you were wondering. We got there too late to save him.”
