YIKES. This is bad. This video is being used as “training” for law enforcement, which shows an officer having the *exact opposite* of a fentanyl overdose after finding a dollar bill on a suspect, & *asking for Narcan* multiple times. “Field testing” 🙄aside, most currency would test positive for fent
This is clearly some kind of panic attack, not a drug overdose. If these cops aren't faking, they're succumbing to hysteria. Fentanyl is dangerous - but not in this way.
These fools gotta learn how to recognize anxiety. JFC, just what we need. Misinformed, delusional police armed with murder weapons and having panic attacks
remember that cop that did a somersault and then emptied his gun into a car because of an acorn
That video will never not be fucking wild.
But but then they’d have to admit they have created for themselves a deeply traumagenic environment and that going to work is giving them a continual acute stress disorder that is causing panic attacks, depersonalization, derealization, and substance abuse, and they can’t admit THAT!
ACAB. Let ‘em die.
Fear training for cops. Great. Just what we needed, more paranoid cops.
Ridiculous @grey-wolf-media.bluesky.social This is high school newspaper reporting.
If you're repeatedly asking for narcan, chances are you really don't need narcan.
"Drop the gun or I'll open this tiny bag of powder, officer!" I mean, a gun is dangerous, but that little bag of powder!? It could be anything! 🙄
This is what an overdose looks like…. youtu.be/kCqs-i7ByAI?...
I actually just decided I do want to work with cops. Being the psychologist who is in charge of removing them from duty, specifically.
Can you do that? I wasn’t aware that cops could be removed from duty. Just shuffled to sone other jurisdiction.
Yes. It was my favorite professor's job. One that she removed came for her in the middle of the night and she chased him down with an assault rifle in a silk nightgown with her sister in law in the bathtub.
I am now in awe of your professor.
Somehow not even the coolest thing about her, she's incredible.
In awe and maybe now a little jealous, too! I love that there are people like her in the world. And a + for the internet is that I get to hear about them!
Very nice. As an outpatient resident clinic supervisor, I had considerably worse experiences with what I THINK were some sort of mandated physician visits. We were in a outer suburb and got cops from the city PD who had very generic medical "clearance" paperwork to be done... (1/6)
It didn't tell us what they were being cleared for or why. The cops were unwilling to give further information and were essentially unresponsive to any history questions. I had 5 or 6 in about 3 months (and there were other preceptors as well, so likely at least twice that many total)... (2/6)
It really felt like these were mandated for some sort of issue that the cops (or their union) decided that they didn't want to participate in and agreed to just come to a resident clinic because they would be less likely to face resistance... (3/6)
That's just my projection, perhaps. Maybe it's just the universal douchebaggery of cops in general I was noticing. But I had some suspicion that these were something like DV, or weapon discharge, or misconduct cases with mandated physician visits. All men, even though the department wasn't. (4/6)
I expressed concern about these in a staff meeting on behalf of the residents and our other patients. The trainee docs (and me) weren't comfortable signing off on blanket clearance for something we weren't even informed about. And other patients weren't thrilled about cops in the waiting room. (5/6)
Not sure if the practice manager actually made some calls, but we stopped getting these appointments. I wish I'd asked her if she did something (and how she managed it). They were some of the least pleasant precepting experiences I had. Jerk cops and uncomfortable resident physicians. (6/6)
Sorry about blogging in your replies, Dr. Marino. I didn't realize I was in the middle of a tangentially related thread when I wrote my novel. I can delete if you like. I wasn't intending to try to distract from your concerns about the ridiculous fentanyl misinformation from PDs.
Managing panic attacks should be part of training, that's what this almost certainly was.
"Want another one?" "YEAH!" A conversation that has never occurred during an opiate overdose.
Can we please just get these people some therapy for their anxiety.
Drug hysteria makes huge amounts of money. In Vegas, there's a clinic in every strip mall.
If you ever find yourself doubting the power of Magickal Incantations to affect reality, just remember how this fake-ass fentanyl copaganda is causing "tough-guy" cops to get The Vapors
what do you think about a theory that police depts & complicit media have cooked up the fentanyl hypersensitivity narrative as a cover for cops who've overdosed on drugs they seized & ingested while on the job?
Doesn't fit any cases that hit the news. The symptoms almost always fit a panic attack, not an opioid overdose
I think cops also tend to exaggerate dangers to themselves to justify faux moral outrage at the people they encounter who they dont like the look of. Maybe part of the "i do a dangerous job and should be allowed to do anything to anyone as a result" natrative.
i think this is it, if it's not my theory
No.... look: 99.9 % of police and LEO are good, decent folk. They don't do drugs, they aren't out to shoot everyone they see, they honestly want to help their communities. The Newsbait Click Media would tell you otherwise.
ACAB
FO ... my Dad and Nephew are LEOs... and I volunteered on SAR for years with others who'd give their Life to save Your sorry A$$
I believe the fent panic narrative is designed to make people too scared to even approach someone experiencing an overdose so more people die. it's evil. also PSA for everyone to carry Narcan and look up how to administer it. it's easy and it will save lives.
lol is the woman they're arresting asking why she needs narcan? is there any possible substance that could do this? like - i'm a layman at best and i can't think of anything, not even fucking uranium would act this fast off of a dollar
A clear case of fainting goat syndrome
There’s a misinformation option in bluesky’s reporting. I just used it. If a few dozen people reported that video - and all other posts claiming similar impossible things - with “you cannot, under any circumstances, OD on fentanyl from touching it” maybe something good will come of it?
These child molesters don't give a damn. The media will uncritically report on them as victims every time, and they'll keep getting away with it until they don't.
What a hero /sarcasm
The thing that bugs me is how the "news" just slavishly reports the copaganda. Two minutes of research, an interview with an MD or just requesting the medical records would dispel this nonsense.
oh lawdt 🙄
😂
Weird how allegedly every homeless person in the country is on this drug that can kill a police officer in seconds for touching it without PPE, it's almost like it doesn't make sense
Did that pig crossbreed with a fainting goat?
I almost tagged you when I saw this egregious video, but checked 1st & glad you’re already commenting.
Funny how cops' body cameras always glitch out just before they shoot an unarmed guy at a traffic stop, yet we get a half-dozen perfectly framed shots when it's time for Fentanyl Overdose Improv Theatre
I’m so tired of this. I’ve applied countless fent patches to patients. I’m sure I’ve gotten it on my hands. I’m still here. 🙄🤦🏻♀️
The podcast Hysterical addressed this! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Since I first heard about all the ODs from touching currency, I've been licking ever dollar bill I get. I can't even get high, so how are the cops overdosing?? I'm just looking for a little back pain relief and the cops get all the good stuff!!
Can't help but wonder if cops would stop constantly scaring the shit out of themselves they might murder fewer of us out of an abundance of caution.
Just saw a Ted talk where they suggest this is a form of mass psychosis
This is like convincing a kid there’s a monster to get them to behave.
Panic attack.
Yep exacerbated probably being out in the high temps. Literally the fainting goats gif in the thread above 😆
If you can ask for Narcan you sure as shit don’t need it.
Art
Not only is the video footage definitively *not* a fentanyl overdose, it would not be possible to overdose this way. You can’t just touch fentanyl and overdose. Like many of these episodes, the symptoms also appear to be quite suggestible after finding a dollar bill and hearing the word “fentanyl.”
The best part of this video is the woman, who probably uses and may have seen/experienced an actual OD, asking *absolutely bewildered* "Why does she need Narcan?" Because what was happening was clearly, obviously not a fentanyl OD.
Do you think @patrickdotweb.bsky.social is thinking, "I did it! I finally went viral!!"
Hyperventilating and syncope? Conversion d/o? (I did not watch the video and won’t give them the click)
If they were girls in a boarding school, it would be mass hysteria. Same kind of panic/conversion.
What would an actual fentanyl overdose look like?
Not a doctor, but I know fentanyl is used to sedate patients for short procedures. So, think what it looks like when someone's been sedated.
Pretty much like a heroin overdose- lethargy, slowed breathing, nodding off/unconsciousness, turning blue
pretty sure it slows your heart rate and breathing like all opiates. in the hospital getting my gallbladders out, the machine kept beeping every time i even remotely dozed off because my heart rate and breathing were so slow from the opiates.
gallbladder. i only had one.
gotta keep a spare just in case, you never know when you're gonna need a little pouch full of gross rocks inside of you
hey i had one that was the size of a half dollar
Wow, idk what mine are like but I have only not had it out because I don’t have attacks very often despite them saying I can just call surgery and have it out whenever I’m feeling surgery-like
Sleepy -> Deep Sedation -> Coma -> Stop Breathing
I’ve had fentanyl injected direct into my veins a few times before otherwise painful nerve blockades. I remember clearly going from happy to relaxed to tired across about 15 seconds. Then it’s foggy for a few minutes. Then just really chill for a half hour.
Oh, and I saw the aftermath of my wife getting fentanyled before a pre surgical thoracic plexus block. She mostly smiled at the ceiling for 10 minutes before their wheeled her away.
I had 3 fentanyl injections post op for abdominal surgery and I maybe got a little sleepy (in spite of the ongoing pain).
I have a relative who goes into bazooka barfing mode if given any opioid/opiate whatsoever. She’d be a good fentanyl detector.
I've had a dozen major surgeries so lotsof personal experience. Just fortunately never witnessed an overdose
I’ve seen a few, but all in the same patient. He would go elephant gray, his heart rate would drop, oxygen level would drop, and he would be unarousable.
Like heroin or oxy or any other severe sedative, you crash hard, loll around, fall asleep & stop breathing.
I'm just an EMT, but I'm pretty sure Narcan isn't a first line treatment for a panic attack. Seems like these videos could lead well-meaning people to force naloxone up a panicking patient's nose, should they come upon one in public. That's not going to help matters and might be more traumatizing.
I’d be excited to find a dollar too but damn
I mean give me a year and when my pots can’t be medicated bc there’s no safety regulations for medications anymore I’ll react like that
lord I hate it when I change part of a sentence and then forget to change the grammar in the other parts to match
😂
I’d be excited to be able to get high by touching that dollar bill
This is so much worse than idiocracy
I'm surprised I've not heard stories of criminals pocket sand-ing cops while yelling "fentanyl!". Seems like it would be an easy way to get away.
I think there was some sort weird hypochondriac response that has been shown with some first responders. I think I saw something either on or like a 60 minutes segment. Related: www.npr.org/sections/sho...
They're having panic attacks because all of their training tells them that if they are in the same kilometer of fent they are going to die a terrible death, and they're all too fucking stupid to realize they are being lied to.
Just like they panic because everyone tells them and they tell each other that every single person out there wants to kill them.
I mean, the past twenty years have shown us how sensitive and delicate all cops are. Everything is an existential threat, everyone is an enemy, things like masks or rules are too dangerous to countenance even for a moment. I fully believe a homeopathic amount of fent would lay one of these guys out.
Rescued from a terror induced panic attack caused by drinking their own propaganda juice.
It amazes me this new generation of Law Enforcenent is literally so "faint of heart". Do they no longer run physical and psych exams every year to catch these unusually susceptible officers? Maybe give a Nocebo/ Fentanyl exposure "test"? OH., you're " immune"!
Mass psychogenic illness is a helluva drug.
You could hold an ounce of powdered fentanyl in your breasts hand for an hour and not have a reaction.
I have seen this in movies now too. Propa being pushed by far right.
Its just not how fent works. Its insane. You'd think it was the most dangerous substance to ever exist the way cops talk about it. Like a fucked up combo of meth, uranium, and Ebola or something.
"Do you want another one?" *WHEEEEEEEZZZZZZZEEEEEEEE* "Yeah!"
In an episode of this newish cop drama Hightown where the character Osito and his understudy go to purchase fentanyl, ostensibly to use for OD'ing someone who saw a cop kill her friend. The dealer says something like, "We're into the carfentaynl now. Wear gloves, even cops are passing out."
Wow, I knew cops are thin-skinned but this is overboard.
You’re telling me I can get high if I just soak a bunch of dollars in water and then boil off the water? BRB snorting instant brain sepsis
Dear @patrickdotweb.bsky.social : Stop repeating garbage copoganda. That’s NOT how fentanyl works, period. A better story to report would be why your local cops are this misguided.
Captain of the Drama Queen Department.
Cops will use Narcan on anyone except someone who needs it
they need to keep enough for a dose every 2 minutes for themselves if they make eye contact with fentanyl
ah, yep, now I see the source
Oh, they'll absolutely use it on people who needs it. Rapid-fire. Because there's no possible down side to putting someone in OD into sudden and near-complete withdrawal, right?
My state will send free narcan to anyone who requests it. 2 doses per request. We have an Airbnb space and I’m also going to put together a first aid kit with it in it to keep with me. Because you never know what situation you may run across. But those cop parodies are damaging public education.
is fentanyl to cops what garlic is to vampires?
Way more potent than garlic alone
Histrionic af
Berkeley County, SC is hardly surprising for this bs. They're notorious for being over dramatic and loving being on camera (like for when they were on COPS or whatever similar show, etc).
When I lived in N. Charleston I worked in Goose Creek (in Berkeley Cty), they'd roll out like 20 cruisers for a ship lifter at Walmart 🙄 The Charleston area in general is heavily policed, disproportionately by neighborhood/demographic, one of those perfect examples of why policing isn't "working".😡
(oh god I watched the video, listening to the lady who got pulled over shouting "why does she need narcan!?!?" confused over it all 😆😆😆 it's actually funny if you can get past how badly informed the officers are)
Well! They called *me* Dainty June!
If you can ask for narcan, you do not need narcan. (Unless you need it to administer to someone else, who is not conscious and talking). Also, as usual, the person they arrested had waaaaay more exposure, and was totally fine. Must be the special fentanyl that only affects cops.
Maybe she had Havana Syndrome.
"I don't know how fast I was driving officer but I do want to let you know I'm covered in fentanyl. Downright silly with it to be honest. Probably getting some on you right now just talking to you"
"Fentanyl" is an incantation that creates terror in cops. Same deal as the Knights Who Say Ni.