I suspect he was just doing heroin and his dealer sold him a fentanyl-laced batch. They're covering his ass, and now they get to use his death as fear-mongering Drug War propaganda.

And of course, he died from swerving into a tree, not even his own opioid use directly. He was a fucking cop. He could have easily survived the trip by having his partner drive, calling an ambulance, or any of the infinite other better ideas he could have acted on.

If he made better choices, he'd still be with us. The one thing I thank him for is not doing so; one less fucking cop.

"It is a common misconception that fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin, but it is not true for casual exposure," according to Dr. Daniel Colby, co-medical director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Health. "The one case in which fentanyl can be absorbed through the skin is with a special doctor-prescribed fentanyl skin patch, and even then, it takes hours of exposure."

Like it's in the fucking article 😆