SKOKIE, Ill (WLS) -- Dramatic video shows Cook County Sheriff's deputies saving the life of a man who overdosed on heroin in the bathroom of the Skokie Courthouse.
The deputies revived the 24-year-old man with naloxone, an opioid antidote they started carrying two years ago.
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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said situations like this are increasingly common, and can happen once a week, sometimes even more often.
Dart said the man was in court for a drug case. He now faces a new charge of heroin possession.