Editor's Note: KellyMae Hemphill was previously identified as KellyMae Demore.

WEST DEPTFORD TWP. -- Ghostly pale and barely breathing, a woman lies on the side of the road.

A frantic family member tries to help while others pace.

These are the images of a heroin overdose.

A video posted on YouTube this week brought those images to the public spotlight, and has started a discussion about the benefits of showing people just what heroin does.

In the nine-minute video, recorded Sunday on Crown Point Road in West Deptford, Kelmae Hemphill looks dead. Her breath is not visible as police officers and EMS begin arriving. As Narcan -- an opiate antidote -- is sprayed into her nose, short shallow breaths begin again.

Since it has been uploaded, the video has garnered hundreds of shares on social media, nearly 23,000 views on YouTube and more than 100 comments on the video sharing website.

Those comments have become a debate regarding the sensitivity of the video and the benefits of sharing it, with many who have been personally affected by heroin weighing in.

"This is the reality of popping pills and doing heroin," one person wrote.

"I think this video is a real eye opener for a disease that is swept under the rug," said another.

"This video is an eye opener to all people struggling with this horrible drug, WAKE UP PEOPLE."

West Deptford Police Chief Sam DiSimone, although not condoning the video's posting on social media, agreed that the powerful visual of an overdose could help deter someone from using drugs.

"It bothers you every time you see it," he said. "You never really want to see it out there, however if it's a wakeup call for some people...When this circulates you see exactly what happens. Some people don't realize it was that graphic or scary."

The woman in the video had been traveling home from Camden with her brother when she passed out in the car, according to DiSimone. Her brother dragged her out of the car and began attempting CPR while a passing motorist went to the Paulsboro police station to report the incident.

Officers from Paulsboro administered Narcan and she was transported to a local hospital for treatment and released. On Tuesday, police conducted a wellness check on her and reported that she was doing fine.

She and her family have spoken out on social media against the video's existence and how often it has been shared online. No one answered the door at their home Tuesday.

While Hemphill lamented that her 8-year-daughter was going to be hurt by the video's presence on Facebook, a YouTube commenter who identified herself as Hemphill mother, Kelly Hemphill, expressed distress at its posting.

"I am not blind to the fact that my child is an addict," Kelly Hemphill wrote before commenting about how watching her daughter lifeless in the street made her feel.

"Don't you think as her mother I want to take my child and hold her and make it all go away? The pain and the addiction," she wrote. "It's my blood that runs thru (sic) her veins. It's my heart that made her heart beat for the first time. And it's my heart that stopped for about ten minutes that day!"

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