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Cop Brushes Fentanyl Off Uniform, Overdoses

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

takyon writes:

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: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:58PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:58PM (#511224) Journal

    (reply for you and AC)

    LSD would appear to have a therapeutic index somewhere between 1,000 to 10,000, if I'm reading this [mangu.tv] right. 1,000 would be the conservative estimate. Cannabis is even higher [tumblr.com] (chart by NORML).

    This page has a different index for fentanyl [wikipedia.org]:

    There is no significant difference between the therapeutic indices [median lethal dose (LD50) / median antinociceptive dose (AD50)] between fentanyl and (±)cis-3-carbomethoxy- fentanyl: 858.1 (444.9–1654.7) and 918.5 (392.8–2147.5), respectively. This finding suggested that both substances are equally safe in mice. [8]

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