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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。
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: l3 w) r! h9 d% w, ?9 p/ ]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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& e2 X3 C6 D1 R8 \2 [) C, rAlberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial1 r& Q; l5 h+ f' S6 c8 I# {
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, b/ R* x1 c0 I+ _% C4 L3 v* e+ p' ]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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* c: P# U1 V+ Q( \8 ]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.
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7 _) [, V: q! Y"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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, e, d" C& a" [0 Z( u0 B; D2 jHampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.' g# ~$ B( D$ A/ Z& v
* T1 ?. j, Q1 G0 J4 u' w# E. J"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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}# o! k# c+ T: g# pThe 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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"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." 1 F; Q |5 p% \7 D# l
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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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