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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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2 N: J! O# y ^6 P+ `$ n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
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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.
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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 M8 b/ r9 m! R) T5 M" b
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Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.$ P. N! X7 L7 K# F6 F. s
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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."
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3 S5 A6 ~! c s7 {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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The vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl. l: N$ m* z2 _# x; v
, z7 X4 _$ n, Q+ b"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.: p4 j! ^! C( L
' `* }7 _5 \: z$ A4 _* u* Q+ J5 y"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." , A/ N# d$ H9 K
( {% C0 v$ V- h; b- VAfter a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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