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PURCELL, OK (KFOR / CNN) – A 19-year-old Oklahoma man is alive after a Thanksgiving opioid overdose, thanks to a special nasal spray used by the police to save his life.
And those moments of life and death were captured on a video of the police camera.
The unidentified man was fortunate that the Purcell police is right at the end of the street and receiving the vital treatment.
"Breathe! Breathe!" We hear the officers saying in the bodycam video.
"Did he take something?" they ask.
The car stopped when the teen lost consciousness and the others took him to the side of the road. Those who were with him did not know what was going on.
"Have you taken any pills or anything today?" an officer asks him.
"Go get my Narcan," he adds, referring to the drug that can be used to save lives in case of overdose.
A woman with the teenager begs him to wake up.
"Talk to me, talk to me," she said.
Cap. John Albertson and Ofc. Mike Smith could tell by watching him that he had overdosed.
"His students, he took something," says Albertson. "A kind of opiate. See the students?"
Narcan is a nasal spray that instantly reverses the effects of an overdose of opioids. It's something new for the Purcell police. They said that the episode of Thanksgiving was the first time that it was used by the ministry.
Things started to turn around for the teenager after receiving two doses of spray.
"You stopped breathing, you're not good," the woman told him in the video after he woke up.
Purcell police said they were trained in Narcan's administration because of the opioid crisis.
They saw a spike in overdoses, they said.
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