When Hall Ambulance Service paramedics revived Michael C. from a heroin overdose months ago, the 26-year-old Oildale native realized he’d been abandoned in a dumpster.
“They said, ‘We hit you with Narcan, how do you feel?’ I said, ‘I feel like I hit the ground and bounced,’” Michael C. said, nervously pacing near the trailer in Space 1 at the Manes RV Park on Beardsley Avenue, from which he emerged moments earlier.