Unusual overdose locations include Middletown train tracks, UDF

Middletown paramedics inject Narcan into a man after responding for a drug overdose behind the Midd-Town Carry Out on Central Avenue Monday, June 26, 2017. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

Middletown paramedics inject Narcan into a man after responding for a drug overdose behind the Midd-Town Carry Out on Central Avenue Monday, June 26, 2017. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

The increase of overdoses in the southwest Ohio has caused police and medics to treat those in need in some unusual locations.

Here is a sampling from June:

Man, 46, under moving train | June 23

Emergency crews say a Middletown man who overdosed is lucky to be alive after he fell onto nearby railroad tracks.

Jesse O’Neill, 46, allegedly overdosed and fell onto the railroad tracks near University Boulevard and wasn’t hit when a Norfolk-Southern train passed over him around 8:30 p.m., officials said.

He was revived when paramedics gave him five milligrams of Narcan, according to a Middletown Division of Police report. He was taken to Atrium Medical Center.

The conductor told police he saw the man lying between the tracks, and by the time the train stopped, 26 rail cars had passed over the man.

» RELATED: Middletown man survives overdose on tracks as train passes over him

Two men, at United Dairy Farmers | June 2

Emergency crews administered a dozen doses of Narcan in two suspected overdoses at the United Dairy Farmers on Salem Avenue in Clayton.

Officers and fire crews responded to the store, 6691 Salem Ave., and found one man from Richmond, Ind., and another from New Paris suffering from what appeared to be drug overdoses.

The two were taken to local hospitals, but police said they did not believe their conditions were life threatening.

» RELATED: 12 doses of Narcan used on 2 suspected overdoses at UDF store 

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