A police captain describes battling the opioid epidemic on the front lines.
There was the mom that overdosed in her car, her kids still sitting in the back when the police arrived. Or the home where the officers arrived on the scene to find an elderly parent left without anyone to care for them after their son overdosed.
Sometimes, officers walk into a situation where an overdose turns into a death. They are left dealing with the grieving, sometimes hostile family members who are coping with the passing of a loved one in real time.
