Ohio is the state with highest number of heroin overdose deaths in the country. City council member in Ohio has proposed a new plan to combat the overdose issue. The new plan would prevent the people from receiving help from the city-dispatched first responders more than twice under particular conditions.

The proposed new plan may work in a way that, if a person has experienced two overdose rescues from the first responders, and that person has not completed the community service which is equivalent to the cost of medical assistance he received from the first responders, then the city would not allow medical services for the third time to overdosing person.

"If the dispatcher determines that the person who's overdosed is someone who's been part of the program for two previous overdoses and has not completed the community service and has not cooperated in the program, then we wouldn't dispatch,” said Dan Picard, the Middletown city council member.

So far, in the year 2017, the city has spent nearly $30,000 on Narcan, a drug that is used to reverse the effects of opioid overdose. In the year 2016, the Middletown Fire Department has spent $11,000.

At least 4,140 Ohio residents have died from the drug overdoses in the year 2016. That number of deaths is 36 percent higher than the year 2015, when the state “by far” saw the most overdose deaths in the country.

The city council member said that the proposed plan is not meant to solve the Ohio’s drug issue, but rather it is an an effort to save the city’s money.

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