A sergeant in the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in Houston was treated for exposure to fentanyl after he touched a flyer left on the windshield of his car.
Officials with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said someone placed flyers on the windshields of patrol cars parked outside the sheriff’s office recruiting center in downtown Houston, the Houston Chronicle reported.
A sheriff’s office sergeant was treated for exposure to the drug which can be fatal, even in small doses, officials stated. The flyers tested positive for the presence of fentanyl.
Investigators are asking anyone who may have seen someone distributing the flyers or who may have seen them elsewhere to contact police immediately.
Officials did not release the name of the sergeant or the sergeant’s condition.
This is a developing story and more information will be provided when it becomes available.
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Bogus Fentanyl Drug Warning: Touching small amounts of drugs could be lethal to officers
The DEA also claims, Fentanyl exposure to police officers “is an unprecedented threat”.
What is noteworthy about the report is, there are no peer reviews by toxicologists or doctors substantiating their claims.
The DEA is beginning to sound more and more like Homeland Security. For years DHS has been using their National Terrorism Advisory System and DHS monthly SAFECOM bulletins to scare the public.
It’s also worth noting, that the report did not provide a single documented case of first responders dying from touching fentanyl. And two Google searches for “fentanyl drug overdose kills police officer” and “fentanyl drug overdose kills first responders” turned up ZERO articles of police dying from touching drugs.
So, what’s the truth about fentanyl?
Police officers will not overdose from touching fentanyl!!!
The Philadelphia Enquirer says, getting an overdose from touching fentanyl is highly unlikely.
“It’s just not plausible that getting a small amount of fentanyl on your skin is going to cause significant opioid toxicity. You don’t absorb enough drug fast enough to get toxicity that way” said Andrew Stolbach, an emergency physician and medical toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
“That sort of incidental exposure would not cause such severe opioid toxicity,” said Joseph D’Orazio, a Temple University emergency physician and medical toxicologist.
“Yes, two to three milligrams of fentanyl would be sufficient to make most people stop breathing if it found its way into the bloodstream. However, fentanyl just isn’t absorbed through skin into your blood quickly or efficiently enough to make this kind of dose possible from incidental contact” Stollbach said.
A clinical instructor says, police cannot overdose from touching fentanyl.
“Neither fentanyl nor even its uber-potent cousin carfentanil (two of the most powerful opioids known to humanity) can cause clinically significant effects, let alone near-death experiences,from mere skin exposure,” said Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2017/07/bogus-fentanyl-drug-warning-touching.html
The conservative news are just as fake are the liberal news.
https://www.drugs.com/fentanyl.html
so where can you get some carfentanil? is it on the black market?