Current Events > California deputy suffers fentanyl overdose after exposure to substance.

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https://youtu.be/Jd76HxqCPf0

"Body camera video shows a dramatic rescue involving a deputy who nearly died from fentanyl exposure while investigating a crime scene."

And people actually use that stuff on purpose

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Good thing they had narcan. That stuff should be passed out like hand sanitizer is now a days with the opioid epidemic going the way it is.

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Great excuse when you do drugs to explain the failed random drug test.
This joke is okay, since the officer survived.

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Going to leave this here
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/san-diego-police-overdose-fentanyl.html

The only way to overdose is from injecting, snorting or some other way of ingesting it, said Dr. Ryan Marino, medical director of toxicology and addiction medicine at University Hospitals in Cleveland. You cannot overdose from secondhand contact.

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic drug that is widely trafficked in illicit markets. Its potency can vary, especially when mixed with other substances, making it easy to overdose with very small quantities.

Dr. Scott Krakower, a psychiatrist at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Queens, said it does not take a lot of fentanyl to do harm. Not knowing the fentanyls potency could quickly lead to overdose symptoms if someone were to inadvertently sniff it.

An opioid overdose tends to leave victims with shallow, almost undetectable breath, limp limbs, blue lips and fingertips, and gurgling sounds coming from the mouth, said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.

He added that it is not biologically possible to experience overdose symptoms, or to die, from touching or being exposed to the drug, and that alternative explanations to Deputy Faiivaes reaction could be the enormous stress and panic among law enforcement officers around this issue.
Most opioids take 30 to 90 minutes to become fatal, and a fentanyl overdose can be fatal in 10 to 15 minutes, Professor Beletsky said. He clarified that the only way to get fentanyl into someones system through their skin is by using medically prescribed fentanyl patches for pain, and those have led to very few, if any, fatal overdoses.

He added that reactions to fentanyl such as Deputy Faiivaes tend to be reported only by police departments or drug administrations, and rarely has a toxicology report or a medical follow-up shown that an officer, in fact, overdosed on fentanyl.
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A report about the risks of incidental exposure to fentanyl found that the police and other authorities, including the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, have published false information about how fentanyl can become present in the body as well as what leads to an overdose, promoting the notion that a small amount of fentanyl absorbed through the skin can be fatal.

Addiction experts and harm-reduction specialists said this misconception can delay lifesaving help during overdoses and cause emergency responders to report vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and panic attacks brought on by fear of the drug.

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Antifar posted...

Going to leave this here
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/07/us/san-diego-police-overdose-fentanyl.html

Pfft, whatever. Something clearly happened to him, like the Holy Spirit took him over or something.

Yeah it's been debunked by multiple professionals as being fake.