Behind the Badge
Best of BTB: Westminster PD Narcan instructor first to administer life-saving nasal spray in the field
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives on Tuesdays and Fridays. This story is from April 23, 2018. Nearly two months after he stood in a class at the Westminster Police Department instructing his colleagues on dispensing the life-saving Narcan nasal spray, Officer Nick Jezulin found himself using that same training to save a life. It was about 1:30 a.m. on April 1 when Jezulin answered a call in a large apartment complex on the east side of Westminster for the possible heroin overdose of a 27-year-old man. “I run in, run through the…
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