Posted on 05/20/2017 9:02:23 PM PDT by Rusty0604
An Ohio police officer passed out and had to be treated for an emergency overdose after he merely brushed some fentanyl powder off his shirt following a drug bust. It took four doses of the opioid overdose antidote, Narcan, to revive him.
Chris Green took the normal safety precautions when he searched a car and arrested two suspects on drug charges, officials stated. However, upon returning to his station, another officer advised him he had white powder on his shirt. Without thinking about it, he brushed the dust off with his bare hand, Christian Broadcasting News (CBN) reported on Thursday.
Police chief John Lane said his officer was very lucky. “If he would have been alone, he would have been dead,” the chief said. “That’s how dangerous this stuff is. What if he went home and got it on his family members?”
“Fentanyl can kill you,” DEA Deputy Administrator Jack Riley advised in a sent out to law enforcement officers in 2015. “Fentanyl is being sold as heroin in virtually every corner of our country. It’s produced clandestinely in Mexico, and (also) comes directly from China. It is 40 to 50 times stronger than street-level heroin. A very small amount ingested, or absorbed through your skin, can kill you.”
Even more dangerous, is another new drug in the cartels’ arsenal, carfentanil. This drug is a tranquilizer that is so strong, it is designed to be used in stopping a 14,000-pound elephant. It is 10,000-times the strength of morphine and 100-times stronger than fentanyl. Police in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, seized $1 million worth of carfentanil from a home after postal workers notified them about a suspicious package. The package contained 5 grams of the hyper-dangerous drug, enough to make $1 million worth synthetic heroin, filled in 50,000 stamp bags, police reported.
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I have a dear friend who is a drug dog state trooper.
Neither he or his dog should be required to assist these idiots.
They want to dope themselves up, then let them die where they fall.
A hundred thousand of them are not worth my friend and his dog.
Fentanyl is yet another thing George Webb talks about. it is a drug that is used like a “truth drug” by the IC.
Opioid overdose antidote. Try saying that five times fast. Go on. Try it. If you get through the first set without screwing up, try another set.
I'm bored. Sue me.
Scary story, to think the drug can be absorbed through the skin by an accidental touch.
I understand that. Should we just let the druggies die? Maybe I wouldn’t have such a problem with that but there are a lot of kids out there that may be vulnerable to trying something once.
I’m thinking it may have been inhaled.
“Should we just let the druggies die?”
Yes.
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All the warnings about hazardous foreign substances are out there...some dont heed the warnings and pay with their life...not to mention those others they endanger..what fools mortals be...I hope you could develop a program to unconvince the naive gullible from just trying something once...
Agreed
My doc gave me fentanyl patches for an injury. I never tried them so I don’t know how they would have been.
“It took four doses of the opioid overdose antidote, Narcan, to revive him.”
Glad it helped the cop. In many states narcan can be purchased over the counter with no prescription, in some places it is even free. The cartels have to love that, tax payer money saves their customers for return business, over and over. Once the addicts get fentanyl/carfentanyl they can’t get off without it, regular heroin doesn’t hack it I from then on I guess.
I wonder why epipens aren’t free. No one chooses to get stung by bees or accidentally eat peanuts.
Freegards
When I was a kid, my dad told me that *if* I did something stupid, be it drugs or breaking the law, there would be NO help from him, so don’t even bother to call him from jail.
Knowing that, and knowing that he was *not* kidding, was an incredibly powerful deterrent to *any* random act of stupidity I may have considered committing.
So I never did.
It’s a shame if a ‘curious kid’ dies on the first try, but we need more dads like mine.
I was on a HAZMAT team for several years. There are many substances that can kill you through absorption. One of the scariest that I came into contact with was Hydrofluoric acid. If you had a hole in your gloves and a small amount was absorbed through your finger tip it can cause unbelievable damage to your body surprisingly without causing much discomfort to your finger tip. Because of Fluorine’s affinity for calcium it can do severe damage to your bones even in very small quantities. One person at a local business we responded to had to have his entire arm amputated after what seemed to have been a minor exposure. But he was lucky because a Hydrofluoric acid exposure can also cause a person to go into cardiac arrest.
There are plenty of chemicals that can absorb through the skin.
If the junkies *know* there is NO help coming and *no* possibility of an antidote, utterly, and absolutely *no* “safety net” there for them, they *might* more carefully consider their choices.
If they don’t, well, life is hard and some lessons, even harder.
Play deadly games, win deadly prizes.
Not a hundred of them is even worth Dave’s good and loyal *dog*, let alone him.
We have had people ODing and *dying* in the Sheetz bathrooms, for God’s sake.
I do not *want* to use a bathroom where junkies may be using this crap [or any crap] right before I go in.
Call me crazy, but I feel I have that right, considering that I am not breaking any laws.
Or inhaled, just because you were somewhere nearby.
Any of us could be struck dead by this stuff, just because we walked by the wrong person at the right time.
I never say this because drugs are created to help sick people and to deal with their pain but this stuff needs to be outlawed. It’s caused too many deaths. They mix fentanyl with heroin and it’s killing dumb kids all over the place.
What's my point? This compassion for addicts of anything is insane. They need tough love and complete withdrawal from the source of addiction or any substitutes. It's tough on an individual basis to know people will die with this approach, it's even tougher to hear EVERY DAY of people who've died.
And, oh yeah, how about some news story about the victims of addicts. Stop making it all about them. That feeds the addictive behaviors that destroy everything in their path.
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