Firefighters sprayed Narcan up the nose of a 6-year-old boy this week, reviving the unconscious child from a suspected opioid poisoning — a traumatic event that, according to authorities, could be the youngest overdose victim ever in the Granite State’s biggest city.
“The fact is that it’s a kid that could be our own kids’ age,” said Christopher Hickey, who oversees the Manchester Fire Department’s emergency medical services. “It is the youngest suspected OD we’ve had in the city ever. None of the guys can remember anyone younger, really not even anyone close to that age.”
Hickey said firefighters went to an apartment on Conant Street on Tuesday at 6 a.m., and found the child “unconscious, barely breathing” on a bedroom floor showing “symptoms of some sort of opioid overdose,” Hickey told the Herald yesterday.