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Paramedics, drug save lives

Amanda Mauck, an emergency medical technician with the Cranberry Township EMS, holds a vial of Narcan, a drug being used by paramedics and doctors to halt the effects of heroin overdoses.

Brian Dambaugh is a “born and bred” Zelienople resident, and as a paramedic supervisor with the Harmony EMS Service he has been on the front lines of a heroin problem that has caused deaths and the near loss of life from overdoses.

“It was pretty rough in the Zelienople Borough for a while,” Dambaugh said. “It's one of those things, I don't think people realize how bad it is.”

Dambaugh, who has been a paramedic with the Harmony EMS for more than six years, was part of a team of first responders who helped save one man's life after he overdosed on heroin.

Dambaugh said that since Jan. 1, the Harmony EMS Service has responded to three heroin overdose victims, all of whom were saved through the use of Narcan.

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