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Overdose victims revived in Schuylkill

State police at the Frackville barracks said a 32-year-old Pottsville man who overdosed on methamphetamines was revived by EMS personnel.

Police said the incident happened at 12:57 a.m. Aug. 25 to a property on Golf Road. The man was revived and was transported to the St. Luke’s Hospital, Miners Campus, Coaldale, for an evaluation.

In a separate incident, police said an unresponsive woman who had overdosed was revived by a family member with the use of Naloxone.

Police said they were summoned at 9:18 a.m. Aug. 26 to a property on Raven Run Road in West Mahanoy Township. They said their investigation discovered the woman is a repeated drug abuser who has overdosed several times in the past. They said she was released from rehabilitation with several doses of Naloxone which was used by a family member to revive her.