A British Columbia resident was issued a lifetime ban at the US border after border agents found an email exchange she had with her doctor where she confessed surviving a fentanyl overdose a year ago.

Chelsea, a 28 years-old Canadian resident was banned from entering the United States of America after answering a series of question.

Her unlocked phone was reportedly searched for two hours after she tried to cross the Washington-British Columbia border, and was questioned by officers concerning her drug use. Despite lawyers trying to put an end to this violating practice, searching of electronic devices, is allowed as part of inspection and warrantless searches on mobile phones are legal in Canada too.

Questioned regarding an email she sent to her doctor referring to a fentanyl overdose that nearly took her life. Ashamed they brought that up and besides the digging they did in her personal life, the humilating aspect of this confidential information soon led to a drastic shift in her life.

Chelsea accidentally ingested the nearly fatal dose while at a strip club someone offered her a bump of what she thought was cocaine. While The dealer who’d sold her acquaintance the drugs and the acquaintance herself died from overdose that night, Chelsea narrowly survived which promt her to swore off drugs completely.

Revived using the opioid OD antidote, the hospital staff later informed her that she hasn’t been handed cocaine but a 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine with a rapid onset and short duration of action called fentatyl.

Bagging up headlines around Canada, the Fentanyl-laced cocaine led to numerous case of overdoses with a striking number of 9 death in 20 minutes in British Columbia, which urged authorities to issue an overdose prevention plan.

The young lady was there for questioned on an abusive relationship she had with an ex-boyfriend which caused her to cry but wasn’t let in the country, despite she visited the US since surviving her overdose. She ultimately admits that illegal drug abuse was the reason why she was issued with a lifetime ban from America, even after she denied still being a user.

Chelsea wasn’t addicted to drugs, but because she admitted to using prohibited substances previously, she’ll likely be dealing with the consequences of a ban from entering the US for the rest of her life.

So, watch out next time you trying to pay a visit to your uncle down in the US.

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