Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoELI5 How the whole touching fentanol you could overdose got started? In med industry we laugh about cops saying they get high or overdosed on it by touching it. ?message-squaremessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down16
arrow-up180arrow-down1message-squareELI5 How the whole touching fentanol you could overdose got started? In med industry we laugh about cops saying they get high or overdosed on it by touching it. ?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square33linkfedilink
minus-squarerunway608@kopitalk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoI think this is a reference to a sensationalized US news story in 2020 where a US officer allegedly brushed off fentanyl powder on his shirt/uniform and reported accidental overdose by skin exposure. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lindseyellefson/fentanyl-accidental-exposure-police https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking/you-wont-die-touching-fentanyl
I think this is a reference to a sensationalized US news story in 2020 where a US officer allegedly brushed off fentanyl powder on his shirt/uniform and reported accidental overdose by skin exposure.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lindseyellefson/fentanyl-accidental-exposure-police
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking/you-wont-die-touching-fentanyl