Florida cop receives three doses of Narcan after overdosing on fentanyl during traffic stop
A Florida police officer making a traffic stop was accidentally exposed to fentanyl, triggering a potential overdose that forced other officers to administer three doses of Narcan.
“She was completely lifeless. She looks deceased in these videos,” Tavares Police Detective Courtney Sullivan told Fox 35 after reviewing bodycam video of Tavares Police Department officer Courtney Bannick, who pulled a vehicle over just after midnight Tuesday before suffering a potential overdose.
Bannick said she discovered narcotics, which police said was believed to be fentanyl, on the passenger side of the vehicle during the stop, prompting her to take the passenger into custody. The officer began having difficulty breathing shortly after, with another officer at the scene saying it appeared Bannick was drifting in and out of consciousness.
The other officers at the scene believed Bannick may have been exposed to fentanyl, which can be deadly in small doses, while she was handling dollars bills the drugs were rolled into. Although she was wearing gloves while handling the narcotics, officer say a gust of wind may have blown some of the drugs toward her and were inhaled into her system.
I know that fentanyl is powerful but a little bit of residue blown into her face causes her to OD, that’s scary.
Thank God for Narcan and quick action.
Attempted murder charges for the passenger, then?
I was just reading that, assuming (I know) that it was just fentanyl, it is unlikely that she could have gotten enough of a dose to affect her to that degree.
Additional fun fact: Narcan (naloxone) is not an antidote per se. It acts as an antagonist to the narcotics and displaces it from the receptors. Unfortunately, the effects wear off and can need to be repeated. Thus, multiple doses do not necessarily mean that the dose of narcotic(s) was large.
Im all for narcan in situations like THIS…opiate “abuse” is worse than “gun violence “and wheres the “outrage” gd liberals are so fond of spewing??…. You want to do this shit( mho !!) you on your own. Sympathy is between shit and sypilis in the dictionary..
The morons that want drugs? Give them a five gallon bucket of their choice, lock them in a small room and let nature take its course. Save them misery. Save us their drain on society. Save everybody from the crime associated with their crap.
Local small town had a woman charged w/ homicide for giving fentanyl to a local druggie who then OD’d. Sh!t’s everywhere.