re: Is it a good idea to carry Narcan if Fentanyl is really this bad?

Yes, it's a great idea to carry Narcan. Not necessarily for yourself, but nowadays there's a higher chance you are somewhere and someone else will need it. Happened to me last year at a bar.
Now as a firefighter I can tell you the "just touching it" exposure isn't nearly as bad as cops make it. And to be clear, cops are the ones who act like contact with Fentanyl is immediate death. It is not. It's actually pretty difficult to overdose on almost anything just from contact. It's a scare tactic they use, and I honestly can't blame them.

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will you start seeing dusting like they do in south america. Where someone blows a powder in your face to drug you?

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You would get a better reaction if you posted this in a FaceBook moms group.

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NOPD officers hospitalized after Fentanyl exposure

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Unless they were actually doing lines (or otherwise ingesting it directly into their bodies), any negative health consequences were absolutely psychosomatic.

That said, I would probably plan to have narcan available if I were still sniffing blow. Too much risk otherwise. Also, I think there is a test kit that's available on the interwebz. Either that or narcan would be part of my hookers and blow kit.

Just build up your tolerance baw

make sure you wipe down the grocery car handle at walmart!

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Unless they were actually doing lines (or otherwise ingesting it directly into their bodies), any negative health consequences were absolutely psychosomatic.

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This and I’m not sure why this myth still exists. You can look at the downvotes when other posters mentioned this in the thread.

Is Narcan hard to get? My cousin is going thru a rough spell with opiates. His old lady called my other cousin, his brother, all freaked out the other day because her old man was unresponsive. Both his brother and I were immediately like, "You know he's a addict, and you don't have Narcan in the house"

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This is some 90s satanism / razor blades in Halloween candy mass hysteria

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This is true to an extent.

I would say it's a more real threat than any of that ever was. People only heard the stories of those things you mentioned on the news, for the most part - maybe a couple of real cases that got the media hype and it went "viral", for lack of a better word.

That said, the majority of people in this country have been effected by or know someone that has been effected by opiates/opioid. This isn't some made up media hysteria. It's an actual problem that has effected the majority of this country in one way or another.

That said, I believe the media has an obligation to report facts (which doesn't exists anymore). It's true that fentanyl is very deadly. It's true that a small dose of fentanyl can kill you. It's a very dangerous drug and if they would just report the facts, there'd by no need for the exaggeration.