Pet mouse saved from overdose

[Catherine]

The sad background to this story is the serious narcotics problem we are experiencing in Canada. There have been a lot of deaths from overdoses.  A pet mouse ate some heroin so the owner rushed it to a Harm Reduction Centre. The mouse was in pretty bad shape, but the centre does have the drug that reverses a narcotics over dose. They managed to treat the mouse and it has made a good recovery.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

That is a pretty good save when you think that they are not trained to treat mice. A vet might not have been prepared to treat a heroin over dose.

I guess it was all in a days work at the crisis centre.