Fentanyl experts say video of Florida officer having a medical emergency is not an overdose - FOX 35 Orlando

LAKE MARY, Fla. - FOX 35 Investigates is looking deeper into this viral video of a Tavares serviceman successful aesculapian distress. The section labeled what happened arsenic a fentanyl overdose. The video has gotten important pushback from members of the aesculapian assemblage saying what’s happening is simply not that. 

FOX 35 took the video straight to 2 of the astir salient toxicologists successful the world. Both person spent years studying fentanyl and its effects. While some hold immoderate benignant of aesculapian exigency is happening, they accidental what is seen successful the video is not accordant with an opioid overdose. 

"There’s conscionable nary applicable mode successful an outdoor situation that that could happen," said Dr. Lewis Nelson, Medical Toxicologist successful Addiction Medicine and Department Chair of Emergency Medicine astatine Rutgers Medical School. 

Dr. Nelson of Rutgers Medical schoolhouse co-published a salient survey saying passive fentanyl vulnerability is astir impossible. This means simply coming successful interaction with the cause is not capable to overdose. He says a tiny dose wiped from a sleeve oregon inhaled wouldn’t beryllium capable to origin 1 either. 

"You spot connected TV erstwhile they enactment retired a line. You person to person a bully magnitude to get successful your body," said Nelson. "You’re not going to get a small pulverization connected your manus and enactment it successful your nose. You’re not going to get sick from that."

Toxicology experts utilized the assemblage camera video released by the Tavares Police Department to enactment their analysis. While a aesculapian exigency is so happening, they accidental it’s not accordant with an overdose. 

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"She’s walking retired of the car. "If your having a fentanyl overdose oregon an opioid overdose you don’t person pastoral tone. You’re not up. You’re unconscious. You’re breathing is slow. You’re eyes are closed.," said Dr. Andrew Stolbach Medical Toxicologist, Emergency Physician astatine Johns Hopkins Hospital and Board Director of the American College of Medical Toxicology. "We spot present she’s sitting up astatine 1 point. She says my thorax hurts truthful bad. Again, opioid toxicity you’re asleep. You’re unconscious."

Officer Bannick spoke with FOX35 believing the Narcan is what saved her life. 

"Narcan lone works to reverse opioid overdoses. It does not enactment to get you retired of anxiousness attacks," said Bannick

While some doctors accidental it was a bully thought to usage Narcan portion assessing the situation, they don’t judge it’s what brought her back.

"It’s not accordant with Narcan oregon Naloxone for you to get it and past person a bully effect and aftermath up and past instantly spell backmost down," said Stolbach. "It’s conscionable not accordant astatine all."

Both Doctors judge Officer Bannick was having a absorption of immoderate benignant to what happened, but, they conscionable don't deliberation it was an overdose. 

"It seems truthful real. These are each morganatic concerns," said Nelson. "I don’t deliberation anyone’s trying to propulsion a accelerated 1 here. I deliberation radical truly consciousness they are exposed due to the fact that that’s what they’ve been told happens."

Both doctors anticipation this tin beryllium a teaching infinitesimal for galore including instrumentality enforcement astir fentanyl. They privation radical to cognize it’s harmless to travel successful interaction with fentanyl and leap successful to assistance idiosyncratic overdosing.