A mother and daughter reportedly overdosed on drugs laced with Fentanyl and had to be brought back to life using Narcan in Ashland City.
Less than a week later as President Trump called the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency, one of the responding officers spoke out about the drug issue.
"The way the world is going, it's just... It's crazy," Joseph Hunter, an officer with the Ashland City Police Department, said.
Hunter grew up in Ashland City, and he said the opioid problem is worse than it's ever been.
"It's becoming a weekly occurrence that we're having to deal with," Hunter explained.
Hunter was the first officer on scene when the mother and daughter reportedly overdosed at the Dollar General in Ashland City.
In a 911 call, people at the store first thought that the mother was having an allergic reaction to a new medicine, but when police arrived, they said the daughter shoved drugs in her mouth and started to overdose.
"Oh my God, now her daughter's doing it, it's some kind of drug," you could hear the caller saying.
"Within seconds she was unconscious, unresponsive," Hunter said. "Within a few more seconds, she was not breathing."
Luckily all officers and paramedics in Cheatham County carry the life-saving drug Narcan, and both teh mother and daughter were brought back to life, but Hunter knows the problem has been getting worse, and he's not sure what can fix it.
"These drugs are bad news. You don't know what you're buying when you get these drugs," Hunter said. "These people thought they were getting something completely different, and it turned out to be laced with Fentanyl. It just about killed them. It did kill them, but we got them back."
Police said they were searching for the person selling the Fentanyl laced drugs in hopes of getting the drugs off the streets. If you have any information, you're asked to call police.
