(CNN)The short, scarce breaths had all but stopped by the time the paramedics arrived. On August 21, EMS workers in Springfield, Ohio, found a heroin user passed out behind the wheel of a car. Having watched the drug spread across the state, they quickly administered naloxone, an opioid blocker, to the overdose victim. In saving a life, paramedics unknowingly forced the user to reassess heroin's impact. The patient's brother and the brother's girlfriend had also overdosed the night before. According to court documents, the person soon reached out to authorities about becoming a confidential informant -- one that would help build a case against two Cincinnati drug dealers who sold heroin...
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