More people are overdosing on opioids - and revived by police and paramedics. Next stop: The emergency room. Then what?
Gina Marchetti walked into the emergency room to a familiar sight: a patient, just brought back from a heroin overdose by paramedics, sweaty and miserable and hooked up to machines. His mother, on her knees next to her son's bed at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, crying and begging him to get treatment.
"He had the blank stare on his face, saying, 'I don't need it, I don't need it' . . . and what flashed before my eyes was when it was me laying in that bed, it was my mom next to me," said Marchetti, whose sixth overdose four years ago nearly killed her — and launched her on a path to recovery as well as a career.
