Ohio Police Officer Accidentally Contacts Fentanyl, overdoses (Incidental Contact With Suspect)

Cleveland.com ^ | 5/16 | Cliff Pinckard

[T-Bird45]

Full HAZMAT suit required for daily police work, it seems. That stuff is just as deadly as being shot.

[Freemeorkillme]

I had no idea it was this powerful.

This is the stuff their lacing heroin with, correct?

[Iron head mike]

This stuff is a killer.

[chris37]

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.

[Signalman]

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.

[Cecily]

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.

[Whenifhow]

OHIO PING!!!

Article and comments

Thanks, nickcarraway

[nomorelurker]

Heard something the other day about police dogs at risk from sniffing or licking the stuff.

[ConservativeMind]

If only this were legally available, because we would have a lot less of this drug available to be used. /end FR pro-drug guy

[\/\/ayne]

Check out this video Police Squad! Strip Searches a Lincoln Continental - 1982 at 2:12 the detective (Peter Lupus) starts testing the drug by dipping his finger into it.

[grania]

There have been cases of infants somehow ingesting their parent's heroin and dying. Mygosh, nobody wants to see anyone die who can be saved. Using Narcan is the best way to save them, I get that. But it's enabling ever more reckless behavior, with times when addicts get their Narcan and the same day OD again. And now there are situations of police and police dogs in danger from these poisons.

I can't imagine how society can absorb the cost of this, economically, socially, or for public safety of others.

[Pontiac]

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.

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?

[TigersEye]

Sounds more like a WMD than a recreational drug.

[NobleFree]

If only this were legally available, because we would have a lot less of this drug available to be used. /end FR pro-drug guy

If heroin were legal, there'd be vanishingly little market niche for fentanyl.

Who exactly on FR is "pro-drug"?

[sargon]

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.

You watch too many movies...

[chris37]

http://nypost.com/2016/07/29/drug-dealers-are-mixing-heroin-with-elephant-sedatives/

Perhaps you should educate yourself.

[ColdOne]

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?

[sargon]

Perhaps you should educate yourself.

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...

[chris37]

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.