It's become a meme at this point: videos of cops having what appear to be seizures or other serious physical reactions when they just so happen to touch a small amount of Fentanyl, a purported transdermal overdose that seems to always happen in front of another cop's phone camera
According to the New York Times Magazine, it's nearly impossible to overdose from merely touching Fentanyl, or any other drug from that matter, because it can't enter the bloodstream.
These cops are terrified when they touch drugs that may be contaminated with the drug Fentanyl. What's going on?
The police-critical believe that most of these cops are faking their symptoms for YouTube views, which is similar to the mysterious and widely-disbelieved Havana Syndrome phenomenon said to be suffered by CIA and other intelligence agents.
They might not be faking it at all. According to experts, they may be experiencing a mass psychogenic illness.
This explanation makes sense when you consider the training the cops are put through. They're told that they're soldiers in the war on drugs and that the drug Fentanyl poses a serious risk to their health. Law enforcement officers may lose touch with reality when they come into contact with this substance.
One of the officers whose quote-unquote "fentanyl exposure" raised eyebrows was fired from his Ohio police department last year over allegations of "dishonesty" and "retaliation against other officers."
It's not clear if that cop or anyone else was caught lying about their exposure, or if they were just having panic attacks.
There are police Fentanyl exposure videos. The New York Times has a magazine.
There is a PSA on how to survive a nuclear attack.