Narcan

The opiate antidote Narcan continues to help authorities revive heroin overdose victims in Ocean County, where the drug problem has become an epidemic.

Police across New Jersey have gotten permission to administer narcan to addicts that have overdosed on heroin, and in Ocean County, the antidote will be available for residents to take home.

A pilot program, currently operating in Ocean and Monmouth counties, that calls for police officers to carry and administer the drug Narcan to heroin overdose victims has been so successful in saving lives that it's being expanded across the Garden State.

Gov. Chris Christie will announce the statewide expansion Tuesday of a program that allows police officers to carry and administer a drug that can quickly reverse a heroin overdose.

As New Jersey's heroin epidemic continues to expand, several South Jersey counties are preparing to implement their own version of the Narcan pilot program.

Months after it was first announced, police departments throughout Monmouth County are beginning to supply officers with the heroin overdose antidote drug nalaxone, also known as Narcan.

Ocean County's Narcan pilot program has reversed 16 overdoses so far, and while it's being considered a success by the prosecutor, it's not a long term solution.

Six lives have been saved by police in Ocean County since they began using a heroin overdose antidote this month.

As part of a pilot program, authorities in Ocean County are carrying and using the drug Narcan to treat heroin overdoses and the effort is paying off.

As deaths from heroin and powerful painkillers skyrocket nationwide, governments and clinics in New Jersey and elsewhere are working to put a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose into the hands of more paramedics, police officers and the people advocates say are the most critical group - people who abuse drugs, and their friends and families.