A Mobile County sheriff’s deputy was reportedly taken to a local hospital after he collapsed when he was exposed to fentanyl while searching a wanted suspect’s vehicle.

He was given naloxone — a drug used to counter the effects of opioids — and is in stable condition, the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said, according to WKRG.

Some experts are skeptical of law enforcement accounts of officer overdoses, with some pointing out to The New York Times that fentanyl overdose only occurs through snorting, shooting up or ingesting the drug, not from second-hand exposure.

Deputies located the suspect, Howard Marks Jr., in a vehicle on Thursday when Marks allegedly threw narcotics out of the window.

The deputies followed Marks to Boyce Drive, where the suspect parked the car and got out of the vehicle.

Deputies said they found a “large amount of narcotics in the vehicle” and a handgun “that Marks was trying to hide,” the sheriff’s office said, according to WKRG.

Marks was charged with trafficking heroin, trafficking fentanyl and certain persons forbidden to possess a pistol.