"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."
“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.
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.
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)
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.
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.