An Ohio police officer is recovering after accidentally overdosing on a powerful opioid during an arrest Friday. East Liverpool officers pulled over two men after a suspected drug transaction. According to WFMJ, one of the suspects tried to rub a white powder into the carpet of the vehicle while being held at gunpoint. It was then that Officer Chris Green stopped the suspect but, surrounded by other piles of the powder, got some on his skin. Green began to feel sick and dizzy, eventually being ushered to an ambulance already on the scene, where he was given a dose of Narcan, an anti-overdose medication. The powder was identified as fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin.

An Ohio police officer is recovering after accidentally overdosing on a powerful opioid during an arrest Friday.

East Liverpool officers pulled over two men after a suspected drug transaction. According to WFMJ, one of the suspects tried to rub a white powder into the carpet of the vehicle while being held at gunpoint.


It was then that Officer Chris Green stopped the suspect but, surrounded by other piles of the powder, got some on his skin. Green began to feel sick and dizzy, eventually being ushered to an ambulance already on the scene, where he was given a dose of Narcan, an anti-overdose medication.

The powder was identified as fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin.