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posted by on Wednesday May 17 2017, @06:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-touch dept.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/health/police-fentanyl-overdose-trnd/

A police officer in East Liverpool, Ohio, collapsed and was rushed to the hospital after he brushed fentanyl residue off his uniform, allowing the drug to enter his system through his hands. The officer had apparently encountered the opioid earlier in the day while making a drug bust.

"This is scary. He could have walked out of the building and left and he could have passed out while he was driving. You don't even know it's there on his clothes," East Liverpool Police Chief John Lane told CNN.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:46PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:46PM (#511213) Journal

    That's about right in terms of order of magnitude, although doses have dropped in recent decades:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Dosage [wikipedia.org]

    In the mid-1960s, the most important black market LSD manufacturer (Owsley Stanley) distributed acid at a standard concentration of 270 µg,[85] while street samples of the 1970s contained 30 to 300 µg. By the 1980s, the amount had reduced to between 100 and 125 µg, dropping more in the 1990s to the 20–80 µg range,[86] and even more in the 2000s (decade).

    That is assuming that the dose is LSD at all and not one of the many lookalike chemicals (such as these [wikipedia.org]).

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