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Police insisted second Salisbury novichok attack was drug overdose, inquiry told (www.theguardian.com)

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Police officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.

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[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

When the only tool you have is narcan then everything is an overdose. I swear cops would call their cold an overdose and narcan themselves.