In an iconic scene in Pulp Fiction, Uma Thurman's character, Mia, overdoses on heroin and is revived by the administration of an adrenaline injection to the heart.
While not exactly accurate from a medical standpoint—opiates suppress one's respiratory drive, they don't cause cardiac arrest—resurrections such as the one Mia experienced are playing out hundreds of times a day all across America. Ambulance personnel, police, and even citizens administer Narcan, a quick-acting antidote usually administered as a spray into the nostrils that shoves opiate molecules off receptors in the brain, to individuals in the midst of an overdose.
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