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A woman whose husband had just overdosed in their Staten Island home was so worried responding cops would find their stash of heroin that she snorted it — and then overdosed as well.
Scott Bevard, 44, and his wife, Lori Gallo-Bevard, 40, nearly died in their Oakwood Heights house Saturday morning, during a weekend of overdoses on Staten Island that killed two people and hospitalized five more.
“He was talking, and he just stopped in midsentence. I came out of the bedroom and he was OD’d on the couch,” Gallo-Bevard told the Daily News Monday in an exclusive interview
Gallo-Bevard called cops but was afraid of getting busted. She was unaware of a state law that protects 911callers reporting an OD.
“I found the stuff he used. I hid it because I was afraid of the cops,” she said.
Both had used heroin in the past, and she had the anti-overdose medicine naloxone in the house. But Gallo-Bevard was panicking.
"I tried to give him Narcan, but I broke three bottles," she said. "I performed CPR till the ambulance got here."
Police and medics arrived in time to administer naloxone, sources said.
...As medics worked on her husband, Gallo-Bevard scooped up three glassine envelopes of heroin, ran into the bathroom, and flushed two of them, sources said.
She snorted the third — and lost consciousness.
Police and medics used naloxone to revive her as well, and took both to Staten Island University Hospital for treatment.
Bevard, a contractor, is back at work, and his wife, a stay-at-home-mom on disability benefits, lived to see their children another day.
"It was a relapse. We were doing so good. We hadn't used in years," she said.
But stress after the death of her dad on Aug. 16 was too much for the couple to bear, she said.
Citywide, 14 other people suffered ODs over the weekend, three of them fatal, police sources said.
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