Ohio this time, and a very lucky copper:
- A police officer ended up in the hospital after overdosing by accidentally touching a highly potent drug.
Chris Green, an officer from East Liverpool in Ohio, US, collapsed after he handled what was suspected to be Fentanyl.
The substance, a painkiller also used as a recreational drug, is 50 to 100 times more powerful than fellow opioids morphine or heroin.
Mr Green had searched a car on Friday night after the driver carried out an alleged drug deal.
The officer had worn gloves and a mask when searching the vehicle but, when he returned to his police station, a colleague noticed Mr Green had white powder on his shirt.
He instinctively brushed off the powder with his bare hand and, within a few minutes, began to collapse.
The ambulance crew and hospital had to give him FOUR shots of Narcan to bring him back. Something like this makes us believe that our opposition to Narcan in the squad cars needs a tiny little adjustment - save it for the copper who in unfortunate enough to have contact with this crap, not the junkies.
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