Her daughter ‘died’ from an opioid overdose. And then ‘she was back.’ – Cambridge Times
Roxanne Shuttleworth was in shock.
Her 31-year-old daughter had called her on the phone to explain that she and a friend had overdosed on a drug that, unknown to them, was cut with carfentanil, a deadly synthetic opioid that authorities say is 10,000 times stronger than morphine and 100 times stronger than its cousin, fentanyl.
Her daughter was in a hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she had been brought in as “an unknown,” or a Jane Doe — too ill to communicate with the medical team that was trying to keep her alive. Once she regained consciousness, she called her mother and told her that she had died but that doctors had then saved her with an opioid overdose antidote known as naloxone.
“She had died, and she was back,” Shuttleworth told The Washington Post. “I just immediately said, ‘I’ll be there. I’ll be right there.’”
