# Severe toxicity from casual fentanyl exposure? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2021, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186 "2021-08-07T12:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186/22 "2022-08-02T13:31:31Z")
Fentanyl flies through the air with the greatest of ease. [A deputy sheriff cheats death](http://tctimes.com/news/sheriff-s-deputy-thankful-to-be-alive/article_5d857852-0f77-11ed-be6f-d373f75c9d37.html): "Swanson said an incoming inmate, Adam Lee Hill, 34, of Flint, allegedly had hidden a bag of pure fentanyl in his anal cavity. He reportedly retrieved the bag and took a dose of the fentanyl and then dropped the bag. Another inmate picked up the bag, was exposed to the fentanyl and needed to be saved by the deputies equipped with Narcan. During this incident, Bradley was exposed to the deadly fentanyl, which became airborne. The video showed Bradley struggling to stand and breathe in an area with no other people." [Further revelations](https://www.foxnews.com/media/michigan-officer-details-harrowing-moment-collapsed-fentanyl-exposure): “I remember someone looking at me, and I can’t remember exactly who it was, but them telling me, ‘but I don’t know what to do,’” Bradley said. “You have to talk us through this, and I remember telling them that I must have gotten exposed by covering myself in it or breathing it in or touching it. So I told them, just wash me off, get me oxygen.” The inmate who smuggled in the drug and actually used it should be dead about twenty times over. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186/23 "2022-08-02T23:37:30Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > here is an article (gift link) from The New York Times Magazine earlier this month about the myth of brief fentanyl exposure causing overdoses The last Very Serious Talk our dad sat my brother and me down to have about 3 years ago (at ages 36 and 42, mind you) was about the danger of casual fentanyl exposure from shopping cart handles. He highly recommended that we wipe down cart handles due to the danger. Thanks, FOX News. We didn’t have the heart to point out that few people who are high as fuck on fentanyl have the wherewithal to go shopping for a whole cart of groceries. ---
**Author:** ![Fundisi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Fundisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fundisi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186/24 "2022-08-03T15:36:24Z")
The weights of the different grains of sand range from 0.017 to 0.011 grams > **[Weight Of Sand - What Things Weigh](https://whatthingsweigh.com/how-much-does-sand-weigh/)** > > Weight Of Sand ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186/25 "2022-10-19T12:53:42Z")
Related story in which a “contact high” (from synthetic marijuana) is blamed for making someone accept a guilty plea. > **[Manhattan Psychiatrist Sentenced in Sledgehammer Plot to Kill Her Child's Dad](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/psychiatrist-sentenced-for-plot-to-have-bipolar-cousin-kill-childs-dad-with-sledgehammer/3903286/)** > > A Manhattan psychiatrist who prosecutors said became a murderous mastermind was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for her role in the plot to kill the father of her child. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186/26 "2022-10-19T13:58:57Z")
It also occurs to me that if a cop is actually suffering from severe fentanyl toxicity the likely cause is the same thing as anyone else. Namely that they voluntarily took fentanyl (or voluntarily took a drug that contained fentanyl, whether or not they knew it contained it) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186/27 "2022-10-19T14:13:30Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Alright … giving the benefit of the doubt here … this is from the above-linked article: > > [bolding mine] > > > In a statement earlier, the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. said it was **“aware of the situation involving West Point cadets”** that occurred in Wilton Manors on Thursday night. > > So maybe snipping a particular word from a quote, as they did, justifies _putting that word in quotes._ > > Maybe 😉 I’m not going to the APA or Strunk & White to check on this 🙂 ⁢ That is the standard for headlines. It’s their shortcut way of saying that “we’re not accusing them of X. But the person we quoted is.” It helps with legal liability. I’ve only seen some more recent headlines actually use them as “scare quotes,” and always in very opinionated articles. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186/28 "2022-10-19T17:16:14Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > We didn’t have the heart to point out that few people who are high as fuck on fentanyl have the wherewithal to go shopping for a whole cart of groceries. Also, if their hands are so crusted with fentanyl that they could transfer a dangerous amount to the handle of a shopping cart, they’re probably going to die before they make it into the store. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severe-toxicity-from-casual-fentanyl-exposure/948186.md?page=1)