PITMAN -- Borough police responded to the same address twice within three hours late Wednesday night for drug overdose victims, thus marking the second and third Narcan revivals in Pitman since the first one less than a month ago.

Police were dispatched to a residence in the 300 block of North Broadway on Wednesday night around 8:30 p.m. for a 30-year-old unconscious male. Cpl. Jon Streater and Ptl. Eric Bailey responded and located the man in a bathroom. He was unconscious from an "obvious" heroin overdose, police said, adding that the man was unresponsive and had shallow breathing. Streater administered the anti-opioid drug Narcan and within five minutes, the man was conscious and alert.

Roughly two-and-a-half hours later at approximately 11 p.m., Pitman police were again dispatched to the same residence in the 300 block of North Broadway for another drug overdose. This time, a 34-year-old female was found unconscious in a bedroom. When Streater arrived, Gloucester County EMTs were already on the scene and administering Narcan to the woman, who had also overdosed. Shortly after the Narcan was administered, the woman became conscious, police said.

"... As we continue to address the drug problem through our pro-active policing efforts, we also have the ability to save lives by carrying the Heroin antidote in our patrol cars," Pitman police Chief Robert Zimmerman said in a Facebook post announcing the overdose reversals.

Late last month, borough police made their first-ever Narcan rescue. Streater and another officer revived an unconscious woman who had overdosed on pills.

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