Husband and wife Ronald and Carla Hiers had overdosed from snorting heroin and did not know about the crowd that came together laughing and joking about them. The group surrounded the couple as they were passed out on a sidewalk in the afternoon almost unconscious.
A man named Courtland Garner even narrated a video of the couple on Facebook Live while others took photos. The pair were less than a mile from a major hospital, and were transported there after EMS responded to the incident
Ronald Hiers is speaking out for the first time since the overdose in an interview with CNN. The couple were both revived by first responders using Narcan, which can help mitigate opioid overdoses. Both also attended rehab at separate facilities.
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Hiers quietly watched the video of himself and his wife, which he says he has no memory of today, and cringes when people laugh and joke as he and his wife are lying face-down on the sidewalk.
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“I am a son. A husband. A brother. A grandfather. A father. I’m a human being,” Hiers noted. “That’s what so many people missed about it. Those were two human beings.”
Ronald just recently completed treatment at a rehab center in Southaven, Mississippi, and will live in a supervised community setting to help him transition and stay clean. His wife Carla has been undertaking a treatment program at a facility in Massachusetts.
Source: CNN
Photo: AWM
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