It’s something no mother, anywhere, should ever have to hear: A recording of the 911 call from the sober home, after her son’s body was found on the bathroom floor.

“This guy has no pulse,” the woman caller says. “He’s not awake. We tried to shake him… no pulse, no response.”

“Overdose?” the dispatcher asks, instructing her to place him on the floor, flat on his back, and start CPR.

“I’m trying to figure out how to use the Narcan, but I don’t know how to use it,” yells a man in the background.

“Keep doing the chest compressions, one two three four five, one two three four five, keep going, don’t stop,” the dispatcher says. “Do you know what kind of drugs he does?”

“We’re a sober living house,” the woman says.

You can almost hear the dispatcher sigh. The man finds Narcan. The dispatch

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