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Wait, for real? I know a lot of people saying this is possible and I've read stories of it happening. I just believed it. I guess I just never felt I had a reason to look into it.
Cops started the rumor. Cops kept OD’ing after pocketing product from dealers they had busted. Instead of publicly admitting that they had a corruption and addiction problem, they started the myth that fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin. So when a cop needs narcan, they can just claim it was an accidental skin contact.
It is possible to absorb fentanyl through the skin, that part's not a myth. Transdermal patches are a thing.
Transdermal patches are mostly made of other ingredients that facilitate the skin transfer. By itself, fentanyl can be transferred through the skin, but it’s not great at actually doing so.
Thats not fentanyl slapped on an adhesive bandage. Thats specifically formulated with other additives to do that. Drug dealers would have to add a lot of time and know how just to REDUCE how effective the straight fent was.
those patches a medical miracle
Its not possible. Every medic and nurse has had more fentanyl on them unprotected than these cops could dream of.
Maybe if you ripped open a pack, shoved a leaf blower in there, and then stood in the aerosolized powder for awhile?
You will never OD from touching fentanyl, it doesnt penetrate the skin unless specicifically formulated to and drug dealers aren't doing extra massively skilled work to lower their products bioavailability.
Cops are being fucking weenies again.