An infant was revived using CPR and an overdose-reversal medication in the Penobscot County town of Eddington, officials say.
A Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office supervisor was called to a home on Clewleyville Road around 2:30 p.m. Sunday for a report of an infant in cardiac arrest, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Thursday.
The supervisor found the infant unresponsive in the driveway and began administering CPR with assistance from one of the child’s parents, the sheriff’s office said. The supervisor was informed that the child may have been suffering from an overdose and administered two doses of naloxone, an overdose-reversing medication.
The infant was revived following the second dose and then taken to a hospital for treatment, where “the presence of an opioid was detected,” the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office said its criminal investigation division, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, and the Penobscot County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the incident.
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