Just before the clock strikes midnight in 2022, we have one last "cops handling fentanyl" story to see us into the new year after a recent viral video made the rounds online in the last two days.

Bodycam footage from the Tavares Police Department made headlines yesterday, purporting to show officer Courtney Bannick suffering from a fentanyl overdose before being saved by her colleagues with narcan.

Police at the scene reportedly said Bannick was exposed to the dose of fentanyl while handling a dollar bill laced with the drug (a similar fate as another alleged fentanyl sufferer from this year). They admitted she was wearing gloves while handling the dollar bill, so their next best guess as to how it got into her system was "a gust of wind."

Medical experts have long assured the public that one cannot overdose on fentanyl by merely touching the drug. What makes it so deadly is that the powerful opiate is often laced into other drugs, meaning someone taking what they think is a reasonable amount of one substance is inadvertently taking a dangerous dose of fentanyl.

Even if Officer Bannick inhaled fentanyl due to a "gust of wind," the American College of Medical Toxicology and American Academy of Clinical Toxicology have reported that to overdose from inhaling fentanyl, one "would have to stand next to a massive amount of fentanyl for two and a half hours." Medical journals have also published papers specifically for the purpose of correcting incorrect notions policemen have about how the drug operates.

Bannick did go to the hospital and is now fine, meaning what likely happened is what is theorized to have happened to others who have been at the center of so many fentanyl scares — a panic attack caused by not understanding how fentanyl works. These stories have proven convenient for scaring the public and some argue they are overblown in order for cops to win public sympathy.

Whatever the case, Twitter users were swift to debunk and dunk on the story being fed to them by some hyperbolic local news outlets — turning a screenshot from the clip into a reaction image for memes in addition to other posts.

1)This isn’t a fentanyl overdose. As an expert in fentanyl & overdose, I watched the video and it does not show fentanyl OD. Period.

2)Regardless, it cannot happen in any of the ways you are alleging…because of the laws of physics & chemistry.

3)Stop spreading misinformation. https://t.co/ip9B3z0C8J

— Ryan Marino MD (@RyanMarino) December 15, 2022

When the cbd gummy + melatonin + chamomile tea hit pic.twitter.com/0XvlxOXWe4

— el boludo mágico (@GarlicCorgi) December 14, 2022

Cops try to arrest me but I think the word "fentanyl" and they collapse on the ground from the psychic shockwave

— Deer Admiral 1986 (@oxyjene1986) December 14, 2022

The story is likely (or at least hopefully) the last fentanyl panic incident of 2022, so here's hoping we can enter 2023 with a better understanding of how the drug works.