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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。6 s% x" ]* Y9 A6 N$ _3 d) [: h
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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。 ?$ m8 v2 K/ ~# ]9 @8 o
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial
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& m2 ~; b* k+ f# f4 w2 U3 [ HWarnings 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.9 p: d/ x5 C/ P( {: s' @$ h
) `/ u. {( {) n. C- _4 rJeremy 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.
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"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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2 s: g7 n, L# G% A: _# v. EHampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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) D9 W: m) ?4 V"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."
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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.
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: n2 B5 `$ F% m$ O1 ^% z. WThe vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.
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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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% J8 y( k; E0 @7 A/ l; u& p/ G"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." " b( l- |5 C# d5 Y6 ]
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After a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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