Florida Police to Release Educational Film on Fentanyl Exposure

Miami, FL - As the opioid crisis continues to claim the lives of thousands of Americans each year, the Miami Police Department has announced plans to release a film for use by schools to educate children on the hidden dangers of fentanyl exposure.

Corporal Blaze, shown here in a scene from Fentanyl Mania demonstrating the portable infrared homing air-defense system used by the MPD to protect the Miami citizens from skydiving drug dealers

"Fentanyl is a deceptively dangerous drug and our children deserve to know the truth," Miami Police Department officer and head of MPD Productions, Corporal Chad Blaze, explained. "I don't think anyone is more qualified than the police when it comes to both the education of the public on drug safety and the creation of visual art that communicates the beauty and the depravity of the human condition."

When Corporal Blaze and MPD Productions set out to make Fentanyl Mania, they knew that, first and foremost, it had to be entertaining. But according to the film's director, police medical toxicologist Mort Fishman, being scientifically accurate was just as important. "Kids deserve to be told the truth when it comes to fentanyl, even if it's scary and even if they cry or have nightmares for weeks. That fear just might be the very thing that keeps them safe in the event of a potential exposure."

According to a recent report from Fox 35 Orlando, even a slight breeze can lift fentanyl particles from a surface, such as a dollar bill, a car door handle, or a 14-month-old Havanese, and send them directly into the brain, which is where overdose is believed to occur. Fentanyl Mania tells the story of a group of teens who are exposed to fentanyl after finding a bag of money under a park bench near their school. They begin showing early signs of overdose after a teacher overhears them discussing the find and warns them of the extreme danger they are in.

Corporal Blase, who in addition to writing the script for the film will play a beloved school resource officer who saves the children's lives by administering Narcan, says that the actors will bring to life features of a typical overdose after fentanyl makes contact with the skin or is accidentally inhaled by a bystander. "We hired some students from the Miami Performing Arts Academy who were just fantastic. They nailed the panicked eyes, the fast breathing, and the sense of impending doom that contact overdose victims experience after realizing that they might have touched some fentanyl."