died in? really. really. really. look at all these places, man. it wasn t like this four years ago. that s when you moved in here? uh-huh, yep. i clean up the neighborhood and i have to wear these big thick gloves because of these needles and crap. it s unreal. as the death rates skyrocket, the bodies come to the montgomery county coroner, dr. kent harshbarger who does tests to defect over two dozen varieties of fentanyl. this is what you call the cooler? our main cooler. when did the bodies come in here? over the last 24 to 48 hours. and every every day bodies are cycling through here? correct. these trays will mostly be full by tonight. what s the percentage of the bodies in here right now that are overdose deaths from heroin or fentanyl? we are averaging 60% to 70% of our cases now are overdoses. so, 70% of the people that are in this room died probably of fentanyl?
if i don t talk about that with people and get feedback from my counselors and friends, like that guilt could cause me to do other things that could lead me to use. it s crazy to know that, like, one wrong move and i can be back out there. this is your mug shot? yes. whoa. do you remember that day? yes. a little bit. i was pretty wasted in it. it just looks like death. i feel like i should be on an episode of the walking dead as a zombie. i see someone who s lifeless, for real. in a weird way when you look at that, does it make you feel good about where you are? yes. i m so grateful i don t look like that anymore. i m so grateful i got a chance to get back on track because some people won t get that chance. staying off any kind of drug of addiction can be a life-long struggle. but now with fentanyl, america s
. put your hands behind your back! i m going to guess this is the dope he was going to sell. now someone is calling him right now. it s been blowing up. do you think that could be another deal trying to go through? good chance. we don t know yet if that s heroin or fentanyl? correct. that could potentially be deadly? oh, yeah. the scary thing is you can absorb it through your skin. that s why you wear these gloves? yes. what are you going to do with this guy? right now we ll hold him. he s going to give us information we can use later on and possibly go get his supplier. you re going to follow whatever he had back to the place he got it from. yes. you think that guy is an ounce-level dealer? yes. that s our ultimate goal is to climb the ladder and put as many guys in jail and as much drugs off the street that s killing people. that s the goal. is that it right there? that s what you guys got in the field? uh-huh. so, what is is it? fentanyl.
fentanyl sent to us in the united states. i live in california. is that something you can help us with? think that works? that works. thanks, richard. submit. let s talk more about what s on this website. chinese laboratories. chinese laboratories are largely responsible for the upsurge and availability of illicit fentanyl in the united states in recent years. this was addressed recently by the chinese government who introduced a export on move of fentanyl and a modified version was then marketed to be sold. they acknowledge they know exactly what this stuff is doing. right. basically it s not just going to mexico and then being smuggled across the border, you could go on this website and ship it here directly. i got an e-mail. then a few minutes later whoa, the e-mail came through. we have a very potent fentanyl analog, very similar in potency
open the door! open the door! do you guys mind explaining why we have to put these masks on? the short answer is, if you breathe it in, you can die. you said you have a nickname for this street. morgue. morgue avenue. you literally walked in to cash a check. by the time your brother had got in an accident and told paramedic he was on fentanyl. what s it like to go through this? hell. hell every day it is hell. welcome to montgomery county, ohio, where thanks to a drug so powerful it could kill you if you touch it, police work isn t what it used to be. why is a sheriff s deputy supposed to be fighting crime driving around with a heroin antidote? we don t have enough ems