Addiction 2016: As Heroin Use Escalates, A New Drug To Reverse Overdoses Hits US Drugstores [VIDEO]

On the night Chris McClamroch overdosed on heroin, he and two friends were driving home from meeting a dealer in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Unwilling to wait for his high, McClamroch shot up in the backseat of the car, injecting his usual 0.5 grams. But unbeknowst to him, this heroin was more pristine than most grades, which are often cut with corn starch or laced with additives. McClamroch doesn’t remember much about the moments after he inserted the needle, but his friends tell him that within five minutes, he was unresponsive and breathing sporadically.