Miami, FL - As the opioid crisis continues to claim the lives of thousands of Americans every year, the Miami Police Department has announced plans to produce a film for use by schools to educate children on the hidden dangers of fentanyl exposure.
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| 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 citizens of Miami 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. "And I don't think anyone is more qualified than the police when it comes to both educating the public and creating visual art that communicates both 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 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."
Fentanyl Mania will tell the story of a group of high school children who are exposed to fentanyl after finding a bag of money under a bench in their neighborhood park. Corporal Blaze, who in addition to writing the script for the film will play a beloved school resource officer who saves the teens' 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."
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