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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。8 r& Z8 p+ w1 w9 m+ p" y2 ~7 `: v( p
9 {* c" p: _# E( @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。# ?. l$ R- T% v2 D9 C4 {
- v" K5 Z/ M! | PAlberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial
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* q1 E% a% l$ W0 \! M+ Q% bWarnings 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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( c5 o; f! W- z3 M% m# w' Z4 k* JJeremy 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. 3 @( n& \( d4 c1 Q
, k7 |; r& T- H& g* _/ vHampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.& j: U7 K# J( I
3 }2 d- ~- W- t- W"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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' B/ r* b5 E! x$ T" dThe vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.+ s; Z9 u% W: I1 B' K+ ?
" ]+ n; y' V6 Z% S6 [9 Z"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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7 t. I1 I( l0 ^3 {"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."
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3 z$ i! w' q5 t* ]After a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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