Overdose deaths surge as fentanyl floods Colorado
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Golden, Colorado — There is little time to waste when someone is experiencing a fentanyl overdose.
In Arapahoe County, Colorado, last December, officers used Narcan to seemingly bring a woman back to life after she took an illegal drug laced with fentanyl.
"It did kill me," the woman, who requested that her name not be used, told CBS News. "I was dead. They said had they not gotten my heart back, I would have been dead or had permanent brain damage."
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