An infant survived what may have been an overdose over the weekend in Eddington.
Just before 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, a 911 call came in reporting an infant in cardiac arrest at a home on Clewleyville Road, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release, Thursday.
A supervisor from the Sheriff’s Office happened to be one minute away and went to the scene, finding the infant in the driveway with the parents. The child was unresponsive, not breathing, and had no detectable pulse, and the supervisor immediately started administering CPR with help from one of the parents, the sheriff’s office said.
After determining the child’s airway wasn’t blocked, “additional information was presented that the child may have been suffering from an overdose involving an unknown substance,” the sheriff’s office said.
The supervisor gave the infant two doses of naloxone, an opioid reversal medication, while continuing CPR. Right after the second dose of Narcan, the infant began showing signs of life and was ultimately revived.
The infant was taken to a local hospital for further treatment where the presence of an opioid was detected, the sheriff’s office said.
Several agencies are investigating the incident, including the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division, the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office, and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services Child Protective Services.
