Posted on 06/28/2017 12:23:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An East Liverpool, Ohio, police officer nearly died after accidentally coming into contact with fentanyl following an arrest last weekend.
A police offer who suffered an accidental overdose last weekend after coming into contact with fentanyl during an arrest is recovering, reports say.
East Liverpool patrolman Chris Green nearly died from contact with the drug, requiring four doses of Narcan, WCPO Channel 9 reports.
According to Channel 9, Green pulled over a car on Friday and arrested two men, Justin Buckle, 25, and Cortez Collins, 24. Green noticed put on gloves and a mask after noticing white powder in the car.
However, once he returned to the police station another officer pointed out that Green had powder on his shirt. Green instinctively brushed at the powder while not wearing gloves.
An hour later, Green passed out at the station after contact with the powder.
"One of the officers had to catch him. He started collapsing," Police Chief John Lane tells CBS Pittsburgh.
Emergency workers gave Green a dose of Narcan at the station and three more doses at the hospital.
"This stuff is very dangerous. It takes just the slightest amount. Just like a little granule. Or it gets airborne, you inhale it. It could kill multiple people if it's in the air," Lane tells CBS Pittsburgh.
Green is now recovering at home and will return to work when he feels better, wfmj.com reports. The two suspects have been charged with tampering with evidence, but more charges are expected, Lane tells wfmj.com.
Full HAZMAT suit required for daily police work, it seems. That stuff is just as deadly as being shot.
I had no idea it was this powerful.
This is the stuff their lacing heroin with, correct?
This stuff is a killer.
Yes, they do.
What dealers will do is prepare their individual doses of heroin in wraps with a specific stamp on them so that the junkies know what dealer it comes from.
And then they will put drops of fentanyl in one or two of the doses to intentionally cause a overdose, or even a death, because when word of an overdose or death reaches other junkies, they want that particular brand particularly, because they believe it’s more potent.
I laugh when I see those scenes in the movies where a cop puts his finger in a baggie containing white power, puts some on his tongue and declares, “This is cocaine” or “This is PCP” are complete none for at least two reasons:
1. Putting an unknown substance/drug/chemical on your tongue, even a small amount, can be extremely hazardous or even fatal.
2. There is no definite way of telling what a substance/drug/chemical is by tasting it.
In real life, law enforcement officers, wearing protective gloves, test an unknown substance by mixing it with a chemical which acts with a substance, resulting in a specific color which identifies what the substance is.
Yet another great reason to deport illegals and build a strong wall to keep them out. A lot of this stuff is coming from south of the border.
OHIO PING!!!
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Thanks, nickcarraway
Heard something the other day about police dogs at risk from sniffing or licking the stuff.
I can't imagine how society can absorb the cost of this, economically, socially, or for public safety of others.
AS usual crappy editing.
But how is it that a cop nearly dies from a little powder on his shirt but these two criminals survive hours of riding around in the car covered with the stuff?
Sounds more like a WMD than a recreational drug.
If heroin were legal, there'd be vanishingly little market niche for fentanyl.
Who exactly on FR is "pro-drug"?
You watch too many movies...
http://nypost.com/2016/07/29/drug-dealers-are-mixing-heroin-with-elephant-sedatives/
Perhaps you should educate yourself.
The reason we now have such a huge drug problem...the powers that be NWO types need to keep the masses doped up. Plus someone is making major cash from that NARCAN, I wonder who owns that company?
I'm highly educated. Drug dealers might be trying all sorts of new opiates in their mixes, but the notion that they "spike" a few samples of their product in order to deliberately cause overdoses is just silly.
No drug dealer wants the heat associated with overdose deaths, and they have plenty of customers for their product without having to resort to such tactics.
Believing every piece of "Reefer Madness" hysteria fomented by those conducting the Constitution-destroying and nanny-state-expanding Drug War doesn't necessarily constitute "educating" oneself...
Did you even read what I linked you?
What I said was true, and that is exactly what they do, and the fact that you are continue to argue with me about something you clearly don’t know about is what is silly.
Stop it.
I do not support the “Drug War”, and I do not read or believe any of it’s propaganda.
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