So you see someone dying, and you have to decide whether to kill them more (or not)??
My question stands - if you encounters someone who is unconscious, how do you know it they are addicted to opiates?
And isn't Narcan medical treatment? Provided by EMT, etc.? What's the treatment for opiate overdose in a clinical setting when there is 'something else to do'?
(Sorry for all the questions 
You would maintain their vital signs and ride it out...interestingly...th
e doctors(not emt kids) put him BACK into a coma....so they didn't seem to agree with Narcan...the doctors didn't try to radically reverse the overdose...
That's the problem...the need to always DO something...
Emt's often get nervous...somebody unconcious and it scares them...usually with loves ones screaming and demanding they DO something....heres from emt1...a training site for emts on Narcan
"Don’t try to wake them up with Narcan, they advised, even if it’s just to “sleepwalk” them to the rig. The risks — pulmonary edema, vomiting and potential aspiration, myocardial infarction, seizures, the list goes on — just aren’t worth it. Just because you can give a drug, doesn’t mean you should give a drug.
Sometimes, less is more.