By Associated Press - Friday, March 20, 2015

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Authorities say a hospital patient in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula had to be revived after two hospital visitors injected her with drugs in her hospital bed.

Traverse City police Sgt. Jim Bussell says the visitors are in custody Friday and the case is being investigated as a potential attempted homicide.

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports (https://bit.ly/1LzJpNK) the investigation began Wednesday when authorities received a report that a potential overdose at Munson Medical Center soon after two people visited a 27-year-old woman’s hospital room.

Medical personnel found the woman unconscious, but revived her with a drug used to counteract the effects of an opiate overdose. Police later found a woman and man who had been at the hospital and a man who said he was paid to drive them there.

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