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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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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。% [' y! T& g% Y! h: f% h! }* j" G
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial2 P+ j/ h6 o2 O( I+ G
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% ]9 P) X" ?& }2 u) K) g5 T/ zWarnings 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. t w: M0 Y1 U$ f& u; d' m: \
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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.$ h& i: }0 z4 N7 S4 K
/ ~& W0 k2 N5 q; ["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) n: r+ m, Y0 ^Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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! s4 d7 Z, m* D2 P$ F"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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'A very dangerous substance'
2 d3 V9 e6 I. |# g: c# _8 e4 i; I% F1 ?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.+ E; D9 s2 W, f, m0 n- P% I3 d
- X4 t' h O4 ^2 _# m"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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8 o+ t9 C- T$ O2 ~* @"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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9 h# ?6 D9 Y% H" P4 p0 R( ^After a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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