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Public commenter urges Medford council to require police to perform rescue breathing during overdoses
Summary
A public commenter told the council Medford Police Department has been refusing to perform or allow rescue breathing for opioid overdoses, citing a misreading of an American Heart Association article and urging policy change so trained responders are permitted to ventilate until naloxone and EMS take effect.
During the public comment period on July 2, an attendee urged the Medford City Council to address what they described as inadequate local overdose response by Medford Police Department and to allow trained community responders to perform rescue breathing at overdose scenes.
The commenter said MPD "refuses to do rescue breathing and…
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