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TIL about Snuggles who is a mouse that ate heroin left on a table. Overdosing on the heroin, Snuggles the mouse was unresponsive and barely breathing when brought into an overdose prevention site in Vancouver B.C. Volunteers at the site administered Narcan and was able to save Snuggles's life.

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