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Hi, all. So I recently had an incident and wanted some opinions. We had a patient brought in by EMS to the ER for SI for possible OD the previous say on fentanyl and patient stated he did take more right before he was brought in. So we let the patient know that we have to change him out into paper scrubs, let him keep his own underwear I check him over make sure I took anything he could hurt himself with, and patient told me he didn't have any drugs on him. Anyways, a little later the sitter I have on the patient takes him to the bathroom and then does not supervise patient while in restroom, and patient was in bathroom for sometime. She brings the patient back to the room, and a piece of rolled up cardboard comes out of the hospital issued socks, and we note the patient has become more sleepy. We narcan the patient and Dr and myself ask patient if he took anything in the bathroom. Patient says no so we have security check the patient over again and they found a small pouch of drugs in the band of his underwear. I'm really upset I feel like I missed something, and don't want to get in trouble for this, I checked the patient and found nothing on him initially. I also don't want to get in trouble for this.