Security supervisor overdoses while on duty at Athens hospital

By Joe Johnson

A security supervisor recently overdosed on drugs while on duty at Piedmont Athens Medical Center.

The incident happened early the morning of June 12th when Athens police officers responded to a reported overdose in the HR building on the hospital’s Prince Avenue campus.

Upon arrival they found 51-year-old Kevin Gordon struggling to catch his breath and “unresponsive with clear signs of an overdose,”

A police report notes that the guard was seated at a desk on which there was white powder that appeared to be crushed pills from an unmarked pill bottle.

The powder had been scraped into a line next to a pocket knife and straw.

Gordon was identified in the police report as the night shift Piedmont Public Safety Lieutenant.

The security guard’s duty belt and vest also were on the desk, as was a red evidence bag with the name Cail Glaze on it.

Glaze was a prisoner of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, who on June 4th had been transported to the hospital after swallowing fentanyl.

Piedmont emergency department staff had confiscated from the prisoner bags of fentanyl and crack cocaine.

“It would appear that Gordon did not turn over all of the narcotics” to Athens police officers who responded to the emergency room incident with the prisoner, the incident report states.

The report further notes that gloves, elastic bands and needles were inside a desk drawer.

Gordon was admitted to the hospital for treatment of the overdose.