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Experts CALL OUT Cops' Dubious Accidental Fentanyl Overdoses Claims
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7:47Now PlayingMedical experts are calling out law enforcement claims of an epidemic of police officers having accidental fentanyl overdoses just by being around the narcotic. Jayar Jackson and Jackson White break it down on The Watchlist. Watch LIVE on weekdays at noon ET.
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"Last year, the sheriff of San Diego County shared “traumatic” footage of one of his deputies collapsing after handling a white powder. Officers administered four doses of the overdose-reversing medication naloxone. His training officer said the deputy was “OD’ing the whole way to the hospital.”
Sheriff Bill Gore told The San Diego Tribune that the officer experienced “classic signs of fentanyl overdose” but was “shocked” that medical experts determined that what the officer went through was definitely not that.
In 2017, a local television news outlet in Ohio reported that an officer “passed out at the station from overdosing on the white powder that police think was fentanyl” that he “brushed” from his shirt during a traffic stop. The following year, the man arrested during the stop was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for charges that included assaulting that officer.
None of what these officers experienced was an overdose, based on multiple assessments from toxicologists, public health experts, drug policy researchers and law enforcement agencies’ own guidance when it comes to fentanyl.
Dozens of police reports of officers experiencing secondhand fentanyl overdoses over the last several years after some form of exposure are largely the same. They allegedly come into contact with a substance through the skin or in the air, they feel lightheaded or dizzy, they pass out. Their heart races. Chest tightens. None of these are symptoms of an opioid overdose."
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