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No news to first responders I'm sure. It seems the OTJ risks to being in law enforcement never end. Stay safe.... Fentanyl Crisis: Ohio Cop Accidentally Overdoses During Drug Call An Ohio police officer was "still miserable" but recovering Monday after he accidentally overdosed on a dangerous drug that has cut a deadly swath through his state — fentanyl. Patrolman Chris Green of the East Liverpool Police Department had just finished searching the car of two suspected drug dealers and was back at the police station when another officer spotted some white powder on his shirt. Without thinking, he brushed it off with his bare hand — and passed out about an hour later, Chief John Lane said. It took four doses of Narcan to revive him. More at the link... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...ng-drug-call-n759741  Drug dealers car. Sons of the Republic of Texas, NRA, TSRA God Bless America | ||
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Fighting the good fight |
Fentanyl is some truly heinous shit. | |||
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A Grateful American |
Fentanyl and some of the other synth opioids (carfentanil) are highly OD level simply by contact, or inhalation of extremely fine dusting when handling. It's one of the reasons you see LE with gloves on, and now having discovered that gloves are an inadequate barrier. You guys with the donuts and coffee. Be safe out there.  "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
Fentanyl is bad because it is absorbed through the skin. And it takes a really really really tiny amount to F you up. It's so light in its pure form--like powdered sugar--that it goes everywhere. There are numerous opportunities, given the right circumstances, where an officer can obtain a lethal dose just by contact with unnoticeable dustings. Carfentanil is even more potent than fentanyl. Waaaay more potent. Just a few grains can OD a human. It has been brought into the US on several documented incidents for mix with heroin. It is what they use to tranquilize freaking ELEPHANTS. And, in addition to the fentanyl absorption, it can be aerosolized at lethal doses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...risis_chemical_agent Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Life without parole, at hard labor, should be a minimum sentence for any drug dealer found in possession of this stuff. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Why aren't the druggies dead? flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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According to the data from this NIH report, many are dying. Despite the 'War on Drugs' which has been ongoing for nearly 50 years, the numbers have been increasing every year for the past decade. | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Make them clean up the mess they've made. Without gloves. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Many are. But one reason that all the druggies aren't dropping dead from fentanyl use is that they have already built up a tolerance to opiates. An experienced junkie can use a large amount of an opiate without causing life-threatening issues. That same amount would OD someone who's never used. (Similar to how a hardcore alcoholic can ingest a large amount of alcohol and still be relatively functional, while someone who doesn't normally drink a lot would be unconscious if they drank that same amount.) As previously mentioned, the insidious part of fentanyl is that it's not only extremely potent, but it's easily absorbed through the skin. For medical uses, it's typically heavily diluted, and often provided in a time-release skin patch similar to a nicotine patch. In the field, merely brushing up against a small amount of concentrated fentanyl powder with your bare skin can be enough to cause an overdose. | |||
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Several agencies are either looking into or actually carrying Narcan in the nasal application. Several deputies have told me it's not so much for an OD'd person as it is for them and their colleagues. Scary. Stay safe out there!! | |||
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Cat Whisperer |
in college (I forget what class it was) we had to each pick a drug and do a presentation on it, one girl picked fentanyl to do her presentation on. She got to the front of the class and said her sister was prescribed it and proceeded to pull an unopened fentanyl patch from her bag.. the teachers jaw about hit the floor and stuttered for 5 minutes. She had to leave early that day haha ------------------------------------ 135 ├┼┼╕ 246R | |||
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Typical concentrations of Fentanyl for use in anesthesia is about 250 MICROgrams/mL. Pure Fentanyl powder in microgram amounts would be all but unnoticeable. I did not realize that the powder readily absorbed into the skin. ____________________________ Yes, Para does appreciate humor. | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Damn!!! Can you imagine a weapon made from that where the powder is released if someone (a DEA or other LEO) enters a room or searches a car - poof, powder everywhere. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers | |||
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Yeah. Guess who just raised the price to astronomical levels? | |||
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| Big Stack |
And, of course, the cartels have learned how to manufacture Fentanyl themselves. No farmers to have to pay, just an anonymous warehouse somewhere in Mexico that can churn it out in large quantities. Expect to see more of it. | |||
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