Quick Fix 5 | Fears and Fiends

Clayton and Greg dispel the myth that if fentanyl touches your skin, you die. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Clayton, English and I'm Greg Glad and this is
a war on drugs Quick fix. I'm Sanegel County Sheriff
Bill Gore. What you're about to see is traumatic body
Warren camera footage involved in one of our deputies who
was exposed to fentanol during this patrol ship. I just

(00:20):
saw a video online. You're okay, don't be sorry. There's
not to be sorry. Oh supposed overdose of a deputy
out in San Diego. Got you okay, I'm not gonna
let you die. It's Okayan passed out the head to
administer narcan to him. As far as I knew that

(00:43):
that was completely plausible. Fetanyl. You get too close to it,
you're dead right. It's I'm not a doctor, but there's
a ton of doctors that came out. I mean, I
know the video you're talking about. He kind of falls over.
It's actually after he's been told that he may have
been exposed to fetanyl and then he falls. I ran
over and I grabbed him and he was o'dein. But

(01:06):
they essentially just said that this is a fentanyl overdose
and you can get it by just it being in
the air, being exposed to just a few small grains
of fentnyl could have deadly consequences. And that's completely false,
and it's false. And that doesn't mean that fentnyl isn't dangerous,
that it shouldn't be taken seriously, that it's not the

(01:27):
biggest plague. And the reason why we're over one hundred
thousand overdose stats. Absolutely is as dangerous as they make
it out to be. Yeah, but not from the aspect
of one grain can get caught in the wind and
land on the tip of your lip and now all
of a sudden, you're overdosed and you did. Yeah, And
it just goes with the fear mongering that happens with this,

(01:48):
and it plays this on the fear of this drug.
Please take the time to share this video. It might
save the life of your son, daughter, friend, or a
loved one. And it's kind of ironic or not, it's
just kind of interesting that all these videos and exposures
of overdose only happened to law enforcement and not anyone else.
I sent more on my skin and experiencing no signs

(02:11):
of toxicity, no overdose symptoms, nothing whatsoever. Yeah, And I
think that video served its purpose as far as making
people fearful and you know, scaring people. It reminds me
of the videos, you know, back in the day or
the news stories they would have about crack cocaine. Yeah,
you know, once a person hit crack, they became, you know,
a fiend of not even human anymore. Like all they

(02:35):
wanted to do was steal shit and hurt people and
smoke crack. And you know that the fear of what
crack was doing in the inner city and that it
was going to spread to the suburbs, it created a
whole another well of problems with mandatory minimums and the
disparity and the sentencing for crack and the sentencing for cocaine.

(02:59):
So I'm just trying to see what could the fear
mongering that's coming with fitting all lead to. And I
saw the negatives of what it did to the crack. Yeah,
it's still dangerous. Yeah, you wonder was coming around the corner,
you know. So yeah, no, I'm totally with you. Also
question why did the word fiend just continue to go

(03:19):
with Druggs. It sounds like some like gangsters in the
nineteen twenties, Like, yeah, conversation fiend, a fiend they still
kept there in the nineteen days out there. They need
a little remarketing on that. Yeah, definitely. They got the
mustache and the top hand, like a stripe suit and
a Tommy guys you fiend you. Yeah, it's very dick dastard. Yeah,

(03:43):
I'm Greg Glad and I'm Clayton English and this has
been a war on drugs. Quick Fix. Thanks for listening.