Deb Whitcraft of the Beach Haven First Aid Squad wants to make it crystal clear that her opinions about opioid addiction and overdose are her own, and not representative of the squad as a whole or the other two squads that service Long Beach Island.
“I wasn’t speaking for every EMT, just myself,” she said this week, after a video was released online in which she lamented the frequency of heroin overdose cases and the burden they place on first responders, prompting public outcry.
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