Fentafloyd died in the morning, before 9 o'clock (it was pronounced dead at the hospital around 9:30 AM).
The toxicology exam was taken about 12 hours after that.
Fentanyl's half-life is somewhere between 2 to 4 hours. Let's take 4 to be conservative.
At time of death the blood concentration was ~8x higher than the toxicology exam (3 half-lives).
At time of death, Fentafloyd had ~90 ng/mL of fentanyl in the blood.
That is about ~10 times the average amount to overdose and die. Of course Fentafloyd might have some resistance since that was not his first rodeo of swalling drugs when stopped by cops.
Edit: points 2-3 do not apply, as some of you pointed out. I'll keep it so people understand the context of the corrections.
Fentafloyd died in the morning, before 9 o'clock (it was pronounced dead at the hospital around 9:30 AM).
The toxicology exam was taken about 12 hours after that.
Fentanyl's half-life is somewhere between 2 to 4 hours. Let's take 4 to be conservative.
At time of death the blood concentration was ~8x higher than the toxicology exam (3 half-lives).
At time of death, Fentafloyd had ~90 ng/mL of fentanyl in the blood.
That is about ~10 times the average amount to overdose and die. Of course Fentafloyd might have some resistance since that was not his first rodeo of swalling drugs when stopped by cops.
Edit: points 2-3 do not apply, as some of you pointed out. I'll keep it so people understand the context of the corrections.