Mr. Ballin

And then the last thing Charlie was aware of was his friend Sam grabbing a phone and calling for an ambulance.

About an hour later, inside of the emergency room of the Salisbury District Hospital, the on-call doctor stood in Charlie Rowley's treatment room while a nurse at his bedside took his blood.

The doctor had just finished examining Charlie, who was now unconscious.

He'd clearly had a seizure, and now he had a fever.

He had constricted pupils, and he had labored breathing.

So clearly, to the doctor, Charlie's condition was very serious.

But the doctor was sure he knew exactly what had caused it.

Charlie had overdosed on drugs.

And the doctor really felt strongly about this because Charlie's girlfriend, Dawn, had been treated that morning for the exact same thing.

She'd been brought in after her heart stopped, and she'd had a lot of the same symptoms as Charlie.

Now, they had stabilized her, but she'd been admitted to the intensive care unit

and was still listed in critical condition.

And so the doctor felt really confident in his diagnosis of both Don and Charlie because the symptoms fit.

And the officer in charge of both cases had confirmed that Charlie, at least, was a known drug user.

And the apartment where they'd both been found had been full of needles and other drug paraphernalia.

Over the next 24 hours, neither Don nor Charlie got any better.

In fact, they both got much worse.

their nervous systems began to completely break down, meaning that essential body functions like breathing were beginning to fail.

Don was literally in a coma and being kept alive by a life support machine, and Charlie was also still unconscious, and his breathing had declined to the point where they had to put him on a ventilator.

He'd also been moved to the intensive care unit, same as Don.