Street drugs, a threat to police officers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w48y6tzkpkg

I used to use fentanyl frequently. Not recreationally, but medically in doing procedures such as a bronchoscopy. With the patient monitored, I would be gloved and masked and very small titrated doses of fentanyl and versed would at times be given IV for “conscious sedation” – never enough to render the patient unconscious. Fentanyl is a very fast acting and very potent narcotic which wears off very quickly. Thus it is ideal for short same-day medical/surgical procedures requiring sedation or pain control. The patients are monitored and naloxone (the antidote) is nearby. Used this way, fentanyl is incredibly safe and useful. But it is also incredibly unsafe as a street drug and is a hazard to police officers – as seen in the video above.