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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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9 p& Y5 h5 C! @; S: M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。( @; }* C% S9 r. g
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Alberta peace officer hospitalized after picking up discarded fentanyl vial
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9 b+ F$ w: \1 ]& E! oWarnings 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.6 \ I& R$ d7 K- v
/ F: N( d7 Y _3 N& a4 KJeremy 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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* {; |- k9 q1 X& a: P7 g6 X"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. & S) r T2 u0 H- Q4 g$ i, p
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Hampton picked up the vial using rubber gloves. Soon after, he began having breathing problems and an elevated heart rate.
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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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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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6 M6 }8 V$ S! N. PThe vial contained MDMA, cocaine and fentanyl.
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4 P$ Y6 b, h! [/ f. Q"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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& p, X7 E- b" Q$ }"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 d9 [) H4 w8 K! |3 n. B1 nAfter a couple days off the job, Hampton is back to work and "doing fine," Dawn said. |
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