Because it's not just users who can get sick from this drug.
The nightmare scenario for narcotics specialist John “Jake” Kelton goes as follows.
A man smuggles a pen filled with fentanyl onto a flight from New York to Los Angeles. Somewhere over Las Vegas, he flings the pen’s contents into the aisle. A dozen passengers immediately fall unconscious. With fentanyl in their lungs, they’ll have six minutes before they overdose.
“You’re going to see panic at 37,000 feet,” Kelton says. “You’re not going to have enough Narcan to help everyone. You’d have to have drums of it. And the sad thing is, the pilot will never land that plane in time.”
Although it sounds like a psychological thriller, incidents of open-air fentanyl exposure have been recorded in increasing amounts since 2016...
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