Graphic video shows officer save man after heroin overdose

Warning: Video contains graphic material. 

The Upper Darby Police Department shared a video on Facebook recently of policeman Matt Rugh saving a man, who shot heroin on a bus, by administering the drug Narcan.

The video, taken by a SEPTA camera, shows a man surrounded by passengers on the bus using heroin. He then appeared to fall into a daze and collapse on the bus floor. Passengers called 911.

In the video, police and paramedics get onto the bus and help the man.

"There is a lot of value in seeing how people who are addicted will go to whatever ends to use drugs," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael J. Chitwood told Philly.com. "At 1 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon, 30 or 40 people on a bus . . . it's devastating."

Police eventually arrested Michael Meeney, 25, on heroin possession charges after they saved him, according to the news organization.

Chitwoood told Philly.com that Meeney was arrested because he used the drug and overdosed in a public place. Police say they also found four bags of heroin in his wallet. He hopes that Meeney will land in a court-ordered drug treatment program.

President Obama announced earlier this month that he will seek $1.1 billion to pay for drug treatment for people addicted to opioid medications and heroin.

Between 2002 and 2013, the rate of heroin-related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, and more than 8,200 people died in 2013, the Centers for Disease Control said.

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