The synthetic opioid fentanyl, and the even stronger carfentanil, have taken lives and threatened officers responding to overdose calls far too frequently, said Capt. Paul Liquorie, with the Montgomery County police.
“We had an officer who was transporting some fentanyl back to be logged into evidence. … While he was en route to the station he started getting symptomatic and had to be transported by EMS. It’s in these kinds of things that you have to be more careful,” he said.
It’s a threat to officers nationwide, typified by the recent case in Ohio where an officer suffered an accidental overdose by wiping powder off his uniform.
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THE biggest drug crisis since the advent of crack.
ReplyDeleteThey better get a hold on opioid use, or we'll be heading down a very serious path to crime - along with many deaths.
This abuse has moved outside of the ghetto. It's in the middle-class (and upper class!) America.
THAT is trouble.
It is time to reign in the Military and CIA who are importing heroin into this Country.
ReplyDeleteIt is an outrage, and time for the Politicians to address the issue head on.