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几天前警察捡到一包毒品,当时还戴着手套,却中毒了,中毒的症状和吸收过多一模一样。4 j6 [ h: |3 l
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今天早晨专科医生在收音机里说,隔着手套毒品都跑到手里甚至身体里面去,可能性比中Lotto Max 还小。
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial# ^- _4 z N" I1 n g; g' f
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1 ]8 `' W O# m+ i* ~' `Warnings are being issued in a small summer village west of Edmonton after an Alberta peace officer was exposed to the dangerous opioid fentanyl while patrolling the streets.
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Jeremy Hampton, a member of the Seba Beach Patrol Service, was rushed to hospital after he picked up a vial of powder he found Saturday on a road. Seba Beach is 90 kilometres west of Edmonton, on the western shore of Lake Wabamun.+ A7 r9 E" n1 {) X9 M6 l
+ w6 Z. `' h4 {, e"He was just out on regular patrol when he noticed there was a vial on the ground," said Dwight Dawn, president of the Alberta Peace Officer Professional Association.
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Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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"He got back to his office and started noticing the symptoms," Dawn said."Fortunately for him, he was carrying a naloxone kit on him and was able to inject himself." e+ L4 c/ A0 G3 k8 O
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'A very dangerous substance'
1 W+ J& z5 ~ f$ \/ _. s; _RCMP were brought in to investigate and officers found traces of fentanyl on the dashboard of the peace officer's car and on his ticket books, Dawn said.7 Y- ^$ E% Y. h, ]) ~) i9 M
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The vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.' H4 `; H' y9 f% _( @
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"We're not not too sure exactly how the inside of the vehicle got contaminated or how he got contaminated. It's just one of those things," Dawn said. "It's a very dangerous substance.
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" O/ O j! Q, X! K"As much as we try to be cautious with it, it takes very little for this to float around in the air and get contaminated." 9 h4 U2 r* D4 h" ^2 l
4 t, ]: `% e' m# r" TAfter a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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