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Old Posted May 12, 2019, 8:39 PM
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Originally Posted by rousseau View Post
There was a story out of Winnipeg a while ago about someone encountering an unconscious person. He was told by 911 to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but he refused for fear of coming into contact with fentanyl. Apparently the fatal dose is tiny.
This picture blew my mind when I first saw it sometime last year when fentanyl was all over the news. The lethal dose of fentanyl compared to high-grade heroin.


from:https://www.squamishchief.com/news/l...sky-1.23160727

Even just having it contact your skin can be incredibly dangerous if enough of it is absorbed into the body.
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